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I don't live on Cullen Ct, but I like the street sign

If you have any interest in editing Wikipedia by smartphone, I encourage you to read my essay, Smartphone editing. Thank you.

Welcome to my talk page I use the name Cullen328 on Wikipedia, but you can call me "Jim" because that's my real first name. If you want to start a new conversation, please click "New section" at the top of this page. I keep the old comments from July and August of 2009 that follow the "Contents" here, because these friendly words of greeting made me feel welcome when I first started editing Wikipedia.

The importance of a friendly greeting

Hello and welcome to my talk page. If you want to start a new conversation, please click "New section" at the top of this page. I keep the comments that follow from July and August of 2009 readily visible, because these friendly words of greeting made me feel welcome here on Wikipedia when I first started editing. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 17:38, 6 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please offer your thoughts

I would appreciate comments and suggestions on any contributions I make. I am learning.Cullen328 (talk) 03:22, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work on Jules Eichorn. He's been needing an article for a while.   Will Beback  talk  06:28, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If I may suggest, now that you've posted the Eichorn article the draft below might be deleted. It's your talk page to do with as you like, but it's a bit hard to edit around.
As for formatting and pictures, a good way to learn is to look around at other articles to see what you think looks best. It can be helpful to break up long blocks of text into subsections. Perhaps it'd be possible to split the biography into two or three eras. Other than that, the formatting is usually kept fairly plain. As for photos, it's easy to upload them: the trick is in finding photos with appropriate licensing. If you have any personal photos then those'd be fine. There are might be pictures of the peaks he did first ascents on in the Wikicommons. File:Cathedral Peak.png is a so-so pic of Eichorn Pinnacle.
As before, feel free to ask if you have any questions. There are several editors here who are mountaineers or just admirers of the Sierra, so you're in good company.   Will Beback  talk  21:13, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
PS: Many editors create "sandbox" pages for drafting articles. For example, User talk:Cullen328/Sandbox.   Will Beback  talk  00:17, 1 August 2009


Your climber biographies

Hey Jim, just wanted to say welcome and thanks for your contributions to the Sierra Nevada climbing history articles. You're filling a niche that's been missing here, I look forward to working with you. --Justin (talk) 11:54, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'll second that. Nice work on Allen Steck and welcome to Wikipedia. I don't know who you are planning to write up next but if your taking requests I think Peter Croft (climber) could really use a page. If you ever have any questions please ask. Thanks again for your great additions.--OMCV (talk) 02:25, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Justin and OMCV. I am beginning work on Tom Frost and Glen Dawson. Comments on Norman Clyde would be welcomed. I will defintely read up on Peter Croft, OMCV. I am still "learning the ropes" in Wikipedia, to use a climbing analogy, and have all sorts of things in mind. My biggest challenge right now is getting permission to use images. My next biggest challenge is hiking to the top of Mt. Whitney with my wife in ten days - she's never been above 12,000 feet except for the train ride up Pikes Peak. As she's 56 and developing arthritis in her toes, it will be an accomplishment if she (and I) complete the Class 1 feat. Jim Heaphy (talk) 02:34, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Debra and I made it to the summit of Mt. Whitney at 2:20 PM on Friday, September 11. Jim Heaphy (talk) 00:59, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year 2021
I hope your New Year holiday is enjoyable and the coming year is much better than the one we are leaving behind.
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working on a new page

hello jim, hope you are doing well. i am a beginner on wikipedia but i am auto correction user. i want to write an article on a ngo which is working very good in there respective field. a friend of mine wrote a article on that topic but it got deleted due to less third party source. can you suggest me something how to write an article which won't get deleted, also i have some credible third party source so i want to ask how can i mention them because they are external links. Devanshusharma569 (talk)devanshusharma569

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day!
I hope your St. Patrick's Day is enjoyable and safe. Hopefully next year there will be more festive celebrations.
Best wishes from Los Angeles.   // Timothy :: talk 

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Request of Help on "Just the Facts" Tone

Hi Jim,

I am very new to Wikipedia. I got your feedback on the draft article located under PhoCoHaNoi. Thanks so much for your comments. I would greatly appreciate if you would spare some valuable time to highlight those parts from the draft that I need to pay close attentions to regarding the aspect that you raised. I know it would be a long shot to ask if you would even consider providing specific examples by directly editing them on the draft.

Lastly, I still do not know on how to submit the revision for review. I do not see any obvious buttons or pull-down menus from the Sandbox setting that would be able to allow to submit the article for review.

Thank you so much.

PhoCoHaNoi

Hello, PhoCoHaNoi. I am not going to edit the draft myself, because I want this to be a learning exercise for you. Here are a few examples of unacceptable wording:
  • "celebrating the 73-year history of outstanding men and women"
  • "pioneering contributions"
  • "sustained leadership and strategic vision"
  • "Exceptional services to innovation ecosystem"
  • "stimulating small business innovation, meeting the Air Force and DoD R&D needs, broadening participation in innovation and entrepreneurship, and boosting commercialization"
  • " So, as Dr. Pham looked back now, he brought systems-theoretic science and control engineering principles, together with teamwork and interdisciplinary to bear fruition in solving warfighter engineering problems, various areas of specific focus for increased activities in space control autonomy and space domain awareness."
It is not the job of a Wikipedia editor (you) to praise a person. Every trace of this non-neutral language must be removed. A Wikipedia article should never say "Person A is great!" Instead, it should say "Reliable source C reports that Expert B says that Person A is great", along with a reference to Reliable source C.
As for how to submit your draft, I will explain that when the draft complies with the neutral point of view. Cullen328 Let's discuss it

Sending Messages to Other Editors

Hi Jim. I will deeply appreciate anything that you can do to help. How can I find out about other editors and send them messages? I recently looked for an article about The Italian Coffee Company that I had read years ago. However, I could not find it. I believe that this article should be available. I am a new editor and I have a big learning curve ahead of me. Maybe you can post to my talk page. I am user Mojosa17. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Smartphone editing

How many edit by Smartphone? Do you have the stats? Hornbeel3 (talk) 05:43, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Hornbeel3. I cannot give you an exact figure because I use the desktop site when editing by smartphone the vast majority of the time, and the Wikipedia software does not distinguish the edits I typically do from the edits by people sitting in front of a desktop computer. I am almost certain that an accurate count would be well over 60,000 smartphone edits. Cullen328 (talk) 05:54, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I think in the future AI can build a better encyclopedia with unhuman like sourcing from multiple websites... What do you think? Hornbeel3 (talk) 03:27, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again, Hornbeel3. "The future" is an obviously open-ended concept, and I do not spend much time thinking about the distant future. My concern is for yesterday, today and tomorrow, and perhaps the next year or two. To date, experience has shown that AI bots can write bad encyclopedia articles, but it had not yet been shown that bots can consistently write acceptable encyclopedia articles. I could be wrong, but I think that is quite some time in the future. Perhaps bots might write articles for review by human editors, but I suspect that few human volunteers would be interested in reviewing bot submissions, unless they are consistently good. I have my doubts at this time. Cullen328 (talk) 06:12, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yes this is for Now. Future will see Wikipedia as a bad idea. This is my prediction Hornbeel3 (talk) 04:09, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

They were trying so hard...

Good call - I was waffling on a username report or reporting as a VOA the next time they added something in article space. Thanks for making me get back to work sooner! Tony Fox (arf!) 17:41, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Tony Fox. Welcome back! Yes, there were several possible rationales for blocking. I chose the username violation as the main reason because it is glaringly obvious. Cullen328 (talk) 17:46, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
FYI, this is actually Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Reverend Colman Trembley. Not sure if it's worth a SPI as they're already blocked. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 19:27, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I do not care too much about the details, Suffusion of Yellow, except that I favor prompt blocks of all disruptive trolls. I do appreciate you letting me know, and feel free to let me know any time you see active disruption of the encyclopedia. If I am active at that time, I will look into it. Cullen328 (talk) 04:17, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Help

Don't really love reaching out to admins directly, but 2A02:587:C23D:F500:4DC:1A21:EEA:118C (talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) is an LTA, WP:LTA/WKHF. They seem to be traveling Greece, as this IP and their last one geolocates to there. Urgent block needed as they are section blanking and will not stop unless they get a block. wizzito | say hello! 06:08, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note that the /32 is pblocked. Perhaps a temporary /32 block is needed? wizzito | say hello! 06:08, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The /32 has been blocked. Sorry for my panicking - this was pretty urgent as they were section blanking though. wizzito | say hello! 06:18, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Wizzito. I think that a sign of maturity is recognizing one's own strengths and weaknesses. I am competent at blocking individual spammer, troll and vandal accounts. And I do that quite regularly. However, I completely lack the skills to analyze and properly block disruptive IP ranges. There are many administrators who have those skills, and I encourage you to communicate with any them. Feel free to reach out to me at any time about any of the administrative areas where I have an established track record. Cullen328 (talk) 06:37, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for telling me about that; I was panicking at the time (as I was dealing with an active vandal) and pulled out some names from the recently active admins list. Luckily the underlying /32 is currently blocked. wizzito | say hello! 06:41, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
If I can give you any good advice going forward, it would be, using your own words, that "panicking" is almost never an emotion that should guide your Wikipedia editing. Occasionally, a situation will require a genuine emergency response, and we have channels for that. Like the time that a known criminal plausibly threatened to kill my granddaughter because I told the well-referenced truth about him on Wikipedia. Do you know about the emergency response channels on Wikipedia? But the vast majority of situations like this can be handled by ordinary editing or reports to established noticeboards. Cullen328 (talk) 06:54, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Further observations on Society of Christians Dronfield block

I shouldn't have suggested there was no reason for a username block—it certainly implies shared use. What I meant to say, now that I think of it, is that it wasn't a spamublock situation, as they weren't promoting an existing organization and their edits didn't implicate the username. Had they been editing productively, I might have just gone with {{Uw-username}} as a way to nudge them towards possibly changing it or making clear on their userpage that it was a single user.

But, of course, they weren't editing productively. So I changed the block to NOTHERE, which I feel is the strongest reason for the block and gets to the point of what they were doing wrong: considering the username and the content of the (thankfully few) edits they made, they were just doing this whole thing as a joke. (More to the point, it will be harder for them to argue for an unblock as they'll have to address that issue squarely. A username block would have left, IMO, the possibility that a reviewing admin unfamiliar with that policy could have blocked after a cursory review, and they didn't deserve to be unblocked so easily (frankly I'm sure they would have gone right back to what they were doing and we'd have to go to the trouble of blocking again). Daniel Case (talk) 06:09, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I completely understand your thoughts on this matter, Daniel Case, and was wavering between a username block or a NOTHERE block myself. In my view, either one is not incorrect, which is another way of saying that both could be correct. If you believe that NOTHERE is more definitive, I certainly do not object. Thanks for making the effort to explain. Cullen328 (talk) 06:25, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

WP:TENDENTIOUS editing on flag of Alabama

I thought it was the determination of administrators that we should reach consensus before continuing to edit the flag of Alabama article. The article continues be edited in ways I have expressed opposition to without consensus. I feel like I would be quickly banned if I were to continue editing the article. Am I misunderstanding what was said or acting improperly? Desertambition (talk) 22:59, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Desertambition. My personal suggestion is that you walk away from that article and take it off of your watch list. I am of the opinion that you are very close to being blocked indefinitely. WP:RGW is relevant here, but you are already aware of that. Cullen328 (talk) 00:02, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I do not see how I am violating WP:RGW. I am interested in factual accuracy and I have consistently provided sources and engaged in discussion. I am going to you to understand what your guidance was and you just threaten to block me. I don't see how that's helpful or productive. Desertambition (talk) 00:07, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Desertambition, no, I am not threatening to block you. But I do think that some other administrator is probably going to block you, based on reading your entire talk page and observing your combative interactions with another administrator and your ongoing patterns of behavior. You still have a chance to change, but in my opinion, you are now skating on very thin ice. Feel free to dismiss my observations if you want. Cullen328 (talk) 00:15, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I accept that. I am on very thin ice. You keep talking about me but it is frustrating when the issues I am bringing up aren't addressed and the conversation is always about banning me, why aren't I banned yet, I am violating WP:RGW, etc etc. Does that mean my grievances and reports will not be heard? Do you understand my frustration or see it from my perspective at all? Desertambition (talk) 00:30, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Desertambition, I think that you are making a mountain out of a molehill with that article. That's my opinion. Cullen328 (talk) 00:44, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
So am I right in saying that your recommendation against "tendentious" editing only applies to me? It seems like the factual accuracy of an article should supersede whatever complaints users may have about me personally. You just keep repeating that I'm complaining about nothing when every time I try to bring up a genuine complaint it gets ignored. I feel like you would ban me the second I edit that article. Is that wrong? Desertambition (talk) 00:50, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Desertambition, I already said that I have no plans or wish to block you. Obviously, if you do something utterly egregious, I would block you but I hope that I do not have to. As for "tendentious editing" applying only to you, that is obviously incorrect. But I do think that you have been the most tendentious by far in the Alabama flag kerfuffle. Fun fact: I have been an administrator for nearly five years and have blocked 5715 accounts. But I have chosen to not block you. I have been editing Wikipedia since 2009 and have never once received a formal warning, let alone get blocked. And when I ran for administrator, I was elected by a vote of 316 to 2, the highest vote count ever for a new candidate for administrator. So, I am very confident of my support in the Wikipedia editing community which has placed great trust in me to assess this type of situation. I suggest that you ask yourself what it is about your behavior here on Wikipedia that causes so many highly experienced editors to repeatedly express concerns about your editing, and think long and hard about that issue if you want to keep editing. Cullen328 (talk) 01:26, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Sumonsen (19:24, 27 March 2022)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Saira_Shah_Halim

Please approve this content, she is my client. I have written content for her. I have added all of her details in the content.

Please check and approve. --Sumonsen (talk) 19:24, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Sumonsen. No, I will not approve that draft. It is unreferenced, which is a violation of policy. Read Referencing for beginners. It has external links in the body, which is incorrect. It is filled with promotional language which violates the Neutral point of view. You must comply with the mandatory Paid contributions disclosure. Please study Your first article. Cullen328 (talk) 19:37, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Please guild me what I need to change.
The links that I have given in the article all belongs to her. Sumonsen (talk) 20:02, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Sumonsen, make the WP:PAID declaration and read all of the links I sent you very carefully. The links that belong to her are of very little value. Reliable independent sources are required. Cullen328 (talk) 20:35, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Saira_Shah_Halim
I have modified the content according to your previous comments. Please check and confirm. Sumonsen (talk) 19:33, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Sumonsen, you have failed to comply with the mandatory Paid contribution disclosure. Please do so immediately. Your references are poorly formatted and are more about her husband t|han the subject. Please read WP:REFBEGIN and WP:POLITICIAN. Unelected political candidates rarely quality for Wikipedia biographies. Cullen328 (talk) 20:03, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Good block on Vpha

Hey! Just a quick comment since I missed the original ANI discussion started by Qiushufang: Vpha is probably a sock of Introductionneeded (blocked May 2021), who previously operated the sock OutrageousAnger (blocked September 2021).

For example, see

So that was a good block in terms of Vpha's behavior, but this is probably just one in an extended series of block evasion socks. — MarkH21talk 09:43, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I just realized that "Vpha" is probably short for Victor Pham. Hah! — MarkH21talk 10:04, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Good work, MarkH21. I am completely convinced. Let me know if you see any new socks popping up on those or similar articles. Cullen328 (talk) 16:42, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Question from SJW4819 (02:40, 31 March 2022)

I added Jaws: The Revenge ahead of creating my account, is there a way to loop that back in since it was tied to my IP address, or just moving forward the account will track what I do? --SJW4819 (talk) 02:40, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, SJW4819. There is no way for the software to automatically connect your edits made with an IP address to your edits with a registered account. However, you can create a user page and note there that you used to edit from an IP address. Jaws: The Revenge was created by User: 64.12.116.72. If that is you, feel free to list the articles that you worked on. Cullen328 (talk) 02:51, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Correction (Adamant1)

The last block was actually in Dec 2020 not 2021. Not that I think it makes much of a difference. Best, El_C 09:29, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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A kitten for you!

Thanks for making wikipedia a better place for us. Today is a sad day for me, and the funeral isn't until tomorrow. I never thought I was an idealist, I just wanted to be more like you and the other editors that simply asked to bring reason into an unreasonable place. Even though sometimes we fail, the ones that love us back make all the pain worth it. You can ask johnuniq if you need to know. Cheers friend. DN (talk) 16:35, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

DN, I am so sorry for your loss. Thank you for your kind words. Cullen328 (talk) 16:34, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Out of control vandalism and block evasion. Thanks, 2601:188:180:B8E0:0:0:0:ACDF (talk) 00:23, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Why is Wikipedia so byzantine in its structure? How do you send someone a message? How do you reply to a message?

As above T A Francis (talk) 22:16, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, T A Francis. You have successfully sent me a message, so it appears that you have figured that out. To reply, click "reply". You consider it "byzantine" and I will not argue with you, except to say that I find it "easy" and "straightforward", so we have each now expressed our opinions. Cullen328 (talk) 04:59, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I still can't find my way round this. T A Francis (talk) 20:39, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Editor arrogance

Why are Wikipedia editors so arrogant and think they know best? T A Francis (talk) 22:19, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, T A Francis. You are a Wikipedia editor. Are you referring to yourself, or to somebody else? If it is somebody else, who in particular are you talking about? Cullen328 (talk) 04:55, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

One more time?

Fresh off the last block you issued: edit summary. Toddst1 (talk) 22:26, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What are you talking about?

You need to be more specific when you give warnings to editors. It's impossible for other people to read your mind.

I just reverted edits that were clearly damaging to three articles: FedEx, Wrong-way driving, and The Travelers Companies.

The first one involved insertion of an image of an entirely unrelated building in New York City into the infobox as the purported corporate headquarters (even though the infobox still correctly states that FedEx is headquartered in Memphis). No citation was provided. And one can see on Google in less than 30 seconds that 35 Hudson Yards has nothing to do with FedEx. So the edit I was reverting was not in good faith. Not even close. It is harassing and extremely disruptive to wrongly accuse editors of violating WP's civility policy when they are accurately calling out clear vandalism for what it is.

If the issue is with the other two articles, I will concede that another editor's introduction of a run-on sentence into Wrong-way driving may have been merely sloppy and another editor's deletion of several sentences in The Travelers Companies may have been an well-intentioned effort to make the article more concise. So if you are advising me to be more civil in correcting those kinds of bad edits, I will work harder on being more tactful and considerate in my edit summaries. --Coolcaesar (talk) 07:03, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Coolcaesar, my warning to you was in response to the vandalism warning that you left on Ymblanter's talk page. Accusing an editor who made a good faith error of vandalism is extremely disruptive and completely unacceptable. Ymblanter has been active on Wikipedia for 11 years, is an administrator, has made over 230,000 edits and is indisputably a productive editor and not a vandal. So, yes, please be more careful in your interactions with other editors. The word vandalism is reserved for behavior that is clearly intended to damage the encyclopedia. He made an error and you made an error as well. Cullen328 (talk) 16:18, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I just looked at the other two articles, and in both of those cases, you made false accusations of vandalism. Don't do that again. Cullen328 (talk) 16:25, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Just a notice

Hey Jim, this is owent acc. I have an account, this one, with a name very close to yours. I know people are gonna think this is an impersonation account, so I want you to know I have no malicious intents for this account. I was just gonna make it before someone who will impersonate you does. I am never gonna edit on this account apart from this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cullen238 (talk • contribs) 16:11, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

AldezD

Last summer, AldezD falsely accused me of sockpuppetry, and has never apologized for it. As to his frequent deletions, too often they have no rationale, or editorial comments that add up to "I don't like it." --←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 06:03, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A toast sandwich for you!

Today is better than yesterday, tomorrow will be even better. I'll keep my chin up and try to make everyone proud. Being content is often better than being happy because the highs lead to lows and the in-between is easier to navigate. Sail on! Damn the torpedoes, and full speed ahead! XD DN (talk) 22:21, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nice to hear from you, DN. Thank you. Cullen328 (talk) 22:36, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Mariupol

Could you please take a look at that lede sentence? Two new editors and an IP just changed it to say that Russia has control of the city.

According the news I consume (CNN, currently on), this is jumping the gun even if it seems likely to happen. I reverted the first new user. Exactly the same words were returned to the lede a few minutes later by an IP. My edit summary had said that this needs to at least be sourced. Another redlinked username has just added a source, which says that Putin says he is going to barricade the steel factory. This is not the same thing imho as “has control of Mariupol” and why would we believe him anyway?

This might seem a bit subtle but it all looks sketchy to me and I am just a humble user who has already reverted once, so could you please take a look, or, if you are not available, let me know so I can try someone else? In case you are wondering, I am asking you in particular because you were on a list of recently active admins. Thanks for whatever you do. This is me seeing something, saying something. Thanks Elinruby (talk) 06:23, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Elinruby. As I think that you must already know, administrators do not adjudicate content disputes. When it comes to content, we are just editors like any other editor, albeit with more experience than average in many cases. When someone approaches me as an administrator and asks me to get involved in a content dispute, my natural inclination is to decline to get involved. The situation in Mariupol saddens me greatly. My understanding is that this was a city of over 400,000 before the war, and that most of the city has been devastated and occupied by the Russian army. It seems that the only Ukranian forces remaining are a small group holed up in a steel mill, and that possibly some civilians are sheltering there also. If that is correct, then the Russians have effective control of the entire city, with the exception of the grounds of one single factory. But I will not get involved because I have not immersed myself in the literature and read neither Ukrainian nor Russian. And despite the tragic circumstances, I consider it a trivial footnote to the history of this horrible war. Cullen328 (talk) 06:39, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. That’s a good answer. I disagree with it, as I see this as more akin to vandalism than a content dispute, but that answer does have some thought in it. I think the article is now inaccurate and it pains me when Wikipedia is inaccurate, especially when it looks deliberate and coordinated. But I guess that is why there’s a disclaimer at the top of the article, eh?

However I think that given other factors I should stop at one revert. If you are going to be active for a while I would appreciate it if you could keep an eye on it, as various redlinks and IPs have also been editing the article to say it’s in Russia, which is somewhat wronger, but somebody already fixed that one.

Cheers. I am going to be around the article for a while, but working on some wording problems way way down the page. Thank you for the brainpower you have applied to this issue. Elinruby (talk) 06:54, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

follow-up: somebody fixed the issue discussed above and made a request for page protection, which is apparently the vocabulary term for what I was groping for, so now I know. I am just following up with you, since I asked you to keep an eye on it to the extent you could, to say that this is no longer a concern. At least to me. Thanks Elinruby (talk) 22:00, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Elinruby, another administrator has semi-protected the article for 90 days. Cullen328 (talk) 22:05, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Right. That takes care of that. Elinruby (talk)

Miss Bono

An IP troll/vandal asked me what happened to Miss Bono. I reverted the trolling. But I will say that I am in touch with her from time to time, and that she is doing fine. She is entitled to her privacy. Cullen328 (talk) 04:39, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

bot names

You've probably noticed that I am very much not shy about blocking username violations. However, generally, I don't block these on sight. I just feel pretty strongly that unless they are explicitly claiming to be an authorized bot, they are probably a new user who has no reason to expect that adding "bot" to their name could be a problem. Technically "I'm not a bot" is a violation, I just think it goes a bit too far. (incidentally, many moons ago I suggested the burden be placed on bot ops instead, requiring all new bots to use the format "<name>BOT" in all caps and to allow it lower case, but... let's just say the good people who operate the bots did not care for the idea.) Beeblebrox (talk) 19:56, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Beeblebrox. I soft blocked but immediately unblocked when I noticed your message on their talk page. I have no problem with your approach to these accounts, but on the other hand, a soft block is easy to deal with. Are you aware of any other centralized discussions of this issue? Cullen328 (talk) 20:30, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I saw that and wasn't intending to criticize but rather to evangelize for my approach. I don't think it's been seriously discussed in a very long time. Wikipedia:Username policy/RFC was in 2014 and didn't touch on this point. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:40, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
Nice work here! I applaud the effort and the intent behind the "Smartphone editing" essay.

We need to continue to work to make the encyclopedia more inclusive. ♥Th78blue (talk)♥ 22:20, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Little moor

I have no way of proving the etymology of this name, other than a location reference, even though it is true. A google maps check of behind the village proves this but I can't add that to a wikipedia article. This information is knowledge within the village and I don't feel as if this would cause an issue. Any advice on what sources could be used would be appreciated.

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