User talk:Muboshgu

WikiCup 2023 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

• Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
• Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
• Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.

Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)

Holiday Greetings

Peace is a state of balance and understanding in yourself and between others, where respect is gained by the acceptance of differences, tolerance persists, conflicts are resolved through dialog, people's rights are respected and their voices are heard, and everyone is at their highest point of serenity without social tension. Happy Holidays to you and yours. Always a pleasure to see your work. ―Buster7 ☎

Proposed deletion of Josh Stowers (baseball)

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Snow White (2025 film)

I removed your tag regarding criticism and controversy, but then thought to myself that the issue was really with the tag. I edited it to encourage a discussion on the target's talkpge [1] as everyone will have an opinion on what should stay or go. If you choose to readd the tag, then please make some suggestions so others know what to do. =) - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 17:08, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Belteshazzar block-evasion

This IP [2] is a blocked proxy IP that belongs to the globally banned user Belteshazzar. His edits should be reverted per WP:EVADE. Please see the latest SPI report [3], he's been doing this for months. You have just restored edits from a globally banned user. Psychologist Guy (talk) 17:31, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Psychologist Guy, I know who the IP is. I had a brief chat with DanielRigal about it last month. User_talk:Muboshgu/Archive_55#Dealing_with_WP:LTA/BTSZ. He said not to leave edit summaries that are supportive when restoring them. BTSZ may be behaviorally problematic, but the content of the edits I restored were improvements to the pages. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:39, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

I see what you are saying. Unfortunately I have received on and off-site harassment from this individual. The user spent nearly 2 years stalking my edits. Basically within a few hours of me editing an article he would go to it and make minor changes to prove a point. This was an issue that was happening every few weeks for nearly 2 years, so not a one off thing. I had to put up with that. I had to file many SPI investigations which wasted hours of my editing time. I spoke to the WMF and they apologized, this individual is a serious harasser. I realize this individual may occasionally make improvements to articles like fixing minor spelling mistakes or dates but this individual is not interested in improving articles at the end of the day, it is about proving a point. When they next log in on their proxy in the next 48 hours they will obviously see their edits have been restored and that I have been reverted and they will see this as a victory. Psychologist Guy (talk) 18:44, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, I see what you're saying too. And I see what they said on PaleoNeonate's talk page. I should probably leave the mistakes as they are. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:57, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Tom Shales

On 18 January 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Tom Shales, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 22:14, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Fani Willis

Responding to your comment on my talk page, you said my inclusion had POV issues. Can you elaborate? I included the basic, stated-in-their-own-words details reported in RS: Willis hired Nathan Wade as lead special prosecutor. Wade had little prosecutorial experience and was paid >$650,000. And bank records showed Wade took Willis on trips. Every single one of these points is exhaustively sourced to multiple different RS. I reported the allegations of an improper relationship by only including strictly procedural and investigatory circumstances, such as the court hearing, the audit committee chair's pledged investigation, and the subpoena. Every single one of these is sourced to multiple different RS. To maintain NPOV, I mentioned the parts where Fani Willis pushed back, namely the subpoena, which she alleges is interference to the election case. Every single point here is sourced to multiple different RS. Willis does not deny having an affair with Wade nor has she denied the legitimacy of the bank records. KiharaNoukan (talk) 05:40, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Every single point you wrote is based on court filings. These are allegations presented as facts, which is a WP:NPOV failure and a significant issue in a WP:BLP, especially in such a sensitive topic area. – Muboshgu (talk) 05:44, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

This is just incorrect. The prosecutorial experience? That's something stated by the Washington Post and the Associated Press based on his resume and work experience. $650k+ in payments? County records per aforementioned WaPo article.

These and all the other points are stated in parallel to how the cited RS state it. The allegation is an improper relationship. This is presented as an allegation. The trips are presented as being linked to the bank records, which is how the multitude of RS I cited in my diff present it. They present this as evidence, not some "allegation." KiharaNoukan (talk) 06:07, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Your entire edit is dripping with bias. They "pledged to pursue" an investigation of the allegations. Willis "sought to quash" the subpoena and accused Wade's wife. This is not a neutral edit on its tone, beyond the fact that a lot of it is based on hearsay that hasn't gotten argued in court yet.

And this conversation should be on the article's talk page, where this has been hashed out. – Muboshgu (talk) 06:18, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

You asked me to talk to you on your talk page. I've posted on the article's talk page. I'll update a response to your statement there as well. KiharaNoukan (talk) 06:21, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

I did not ask you to message me on my talk page. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:29, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

If you think this was a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page KiharaNoukan (talk) 23:49, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

I stand corrected, that's in the level one template warning I applied. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:50, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Help

I’m wondering if you could look into the recent edits of user @ Magnolia677 . They continuously remove bulk amounts of Articles for reason “unsourced content” When in reality it would take 30 seconds to find a reliable source for the information they’re deleting. It seems a disservice to Wikipedia as a whole. They could very well just as easy provide a “citation needed” box after the information that they’re erasing. Examples are here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Aransas_Pass,_Texas&oldid=1197506569

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Peachtree_City,_Georgia&oldid=1197512500

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Waynesville,_North_Carolina&oldid=1197221040

It goes on and on, after browsing their contributions for a short while i now believe this user simply wants their edit count up. Would love to grab your thoughts.

Note: I came across said user in an unrelated matter when they removed important information without consensus & then all of this came to my attention. Elvisisalive95 (talk) 22:49, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Elvisisalive95, I see you posted on their talk page, which is the appropriate first step. Hopefully you two can work it out amongst yourselves. If you're unable to reach a resolution, you can consider taking it to a noticeboard. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:25, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

DYK for LaVonne Griffin-Valade

On 23 January 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article LaVonne Griffin-Valade, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that LaVonne Griffin-Valade, the Oregon Secretary of State, has published four crime fiction novels? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/LaVonne Griffin-Valade. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, LaVonne Griffin-Valade), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Jack Burke Jr.

On 24 January 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Jack Burke Jr., which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 00:00, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Charles Osgood

On 24 January 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Charles Osgood, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 03:32, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Howard Golden

On 27 January 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Howard Golden, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Spencer^T•C 21:39, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Adam Ottavino

He did re—sign with the Mets 1 year contract click here to check. — https://nypost.com/2024/01/27/sports/adam-ottavino-re-signs-with-mets-on-one-year-contract/amp/ 67.244.11.107 (talk) 00:30, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

The right-hander, who opted out of the final year of his deal with the Mets following the season, agreed Saturday to a one-year, $4.5 million deal to return to the Mets bullpen, pending a physical, The Post’s Joel Sherman reported. – Muboshgu (talk) 00:31, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Once we wait and find the correct sources instead of unsources then can you remove the protection it was on indefinitely protected it has no expiration set once we find the correct sources? 69.200.248.190 (talk) 00:47, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

definite was an error. The page will be changed when the team announces the roster transaction.n – Muboshgu (talk) 00:48, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Can you fix the link on twitter please that Adam Ottavino sign to a one year contract I put it on request to fix the link. 69.94.56.76 (talk) 04:46, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Third Way edits

I respectfully request an update to the format of the content by this editor in place of a full deletion of the newly added content on the Third Way page regarding the blocking of third party ballot access. Semafor is a reliable neutral source with an audio recording and quotes of a conversation which serve as evidence of Third Way behavior; Semafor is founded and staffed by well-established journalists with a record of transparency and neutrality in its coverage. Many articles have been written on this topic making it relevant to the conversation 50.29.48.175 (talk) 03:19, 31 January 2024 (UTC)