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Bret Baier, info

Hi Ser!, since I am not that familiar with WP:ONUS, user FMSky "reverted" on Okt. 30, 2024 an important passage concerning Bret Baiers career, just by arguing "unnotable". I put the issue on the discussion page. Would you please have an eye on that? Thanks a lot. Peter Christian Riemann (talk) 11:43, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Peter Christian Riemann:, I see you've left a message on the article's talk page. Your best course of action would be to ping FMSky underneath it and get a discussion going about the content, where other editors can chime in. ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 16:38, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Eastern Cow

Eat fish you butt! you are probably some 20000 year old woman frog in south detroit. stop commenting on my posts, i am using facts, also don't put your pronouns on your talk page, it is maddening. also do i pronounce your name ( s-ee-r-ee) like the commonly used AI siri or like ( s-ur-ee). it is honestly maddening when someone doesn't say how to pronounce their name when they meet someone. also i will say that you are being smart mouthed by a 12 year old. but you are undignified to give me a complaint. i also want the $1,000,000 that you said that i would get, Seri. also are u sure that you are irish, because i'm pretty sure that i am talking to an old indian woman, also could you import some fresh potatoes to 1612 east gaylon Dr. tempe AZ, I would love some fresh Irish potatoesto go into my Irish stew also I've always wanted to ask this question to someone that is irish, do you like corned cabbage, and beef for christmas, because corned beef and cabbage is my all time favorite meal, and you should eat poached eggs, they are so good. bye now. Eastern cow (talk) 21:09, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

yknow I’d usually get rid of these messages but this gave me a chuckle, thanks! ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 23:44, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page jaguar) It breaks my heart every single time I see the career of a promising new editor derailed by scandal and intrigue. What could have been... Remsense ‥ 论 23:46, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Website names

Hi Ser! Good work checking the candidates against Returning Officer websites. It's something to finalise between today, with nominations closing, and Monday, with an opportunity for withdrawals. ROs natiobally will probably publish their final lists early next week. A small observation on the references you added: Template:Cite web says that for the website parameter, "website: Title of website (when the website has a clear name, use that rather than the domain name)", so a title in these instances should probably be "Cork County Returning Officer", rather than "corkcountyreturningofficer.com". Iveagh Gardens (talk) 07:19, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, I’ve just been using the autofill cite - will note for future editing. ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 10:19, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Query on your methods

Hello Ser! Per your comment at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Paul Gosling, could you enlighten me how you were able to find so many newspapers.com sources? Does this require a subscription? Thank you! starship.paint (talk / cont) 13:55, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @Starship.paint, yeah certainly. Most of my research has come from WP:The Wikipedia Library, which has a bunch of brilliant resources with news coverage from years past. The website I usually use is Newspapers.com, which requires a subscription but as part of TWL you can put in a request for database access - check out WP:Newspapers.com for more on that. A lot of sources (particularly on darts players) are available on there that can’t be found online, which helps my research a lot. Best, ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 14:02, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for the help, Ser! I will have to reevaluate my AfD votes once I have gotten access to this tool. starship.paint (talk / cont) 14:12, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Of course. For what it's worth I've had a look through at a few of the AfDs and found sources for some but not gotten around to voting as I wasn't swayed one way or another, but I'll keep having a look through whenever I get a chance. ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 14:54, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dear ser! I have now gotten Newspapers.com access and it has definitely improved my judgement at AfDs. Thank you again! starship.paint (talk / cont) 14:55, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Gosling

Hello, Ser!,

I guess you decided to close this AFD but you didn't do so correctly. The archived discussion is not correctly formatted, you haven't removed the AFD tag from the article or put the appropriate notice on the article talk page. Please finish this closure. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:39, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My bad @Liz:. I think I've done it right this time. Will leave to the professionals in future. ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 10:41, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

James Lawless

Hello Ser! Regarding Cuisle In James' personal website he mentions he was editor of Cuisle which was a FF Magazine currently dormant but which may be relaunched. This is a fact he is proud of hence it remains on his website and is also on the FF website too. Cuisle also has its own facebook page also. You may want to verify these facts.Devite (talk) 14:07, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Devite:, thanks for the message. Point taken on it being a magazine rather than a newsletter; I just don't know if writing a now dormant magazine, backed up as information only by the subject's own website, is notable enough to include in the article. ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 14:17, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fair point. Devite (talk) 14:52, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I like your salamander

Cmrc23 ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ 10:49, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, too kind. This interspecies solidarity is a goal Wikipedia must work valiantly towards. ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 10:51, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Oxford child sex abuse ring

There's a lot more of these pages, and their view counts have gone from the low tens per day to over a thousand per day over the the couple of days [1] (this is perhaps connected to Elon Musk's X activity?). I've made a post at NPOVN with what I think are a comprehensive list of pages Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard#"Muslim_grooming_gangs"_again, which you may find interesting. Hemiauchenia (talk) 15:39, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Musk mentioning them is what brought the page to my attention in the first place - because whenever he talks about something, you can rest assured there'll be a flood of dreadful edits and talk page messages accusing Wikipedia of "bias", "censorship" or doing the bidding of Bill Gates/Klaus Schwab/whoever else. Where Musk goes, a trail of pain follows... ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 15:42, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it's just that the questionable editing has hardly been confined to the Oxford article. Take the activities of this user for example, which you may be interested in taking a look at. Hemiauchenia (talk) 15:47, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]