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	Hello, the wiki page for OneTick was deleted in June 2012, after a discussion regarding lack of ]. In the preceding year we have attained additional noteworthiness. I would like to lobby for reinstating the page. Since you were the last Wiki administrator to comment (June 13, 2012), I am looking for guidance on the reinstatement process. Thank you, LouisLovas. <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 14:45, 20 May 2013 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
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	Hello... I did read what you said above, but hope you will accept and forgive this interruption in your work as it is just a big, big thank you for working on ]. I've been meaning to tackle this important article for years. I even suggested a friend of mine that she should get her students work on it as a project, but she felt a bit intimidated and never got round to it. I see you've cited her in the article, which now makes the whole thing totally weird and perfect!! Anyway, if you'd like, I'll have a go at copyediting etc at some point. Merry Christmas if you celebrate it, and if not happy holidays, and once again, thanks!! ] (]) 22:31, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
	:Actually, I'm kinda happy that someone noticed my work there; I've had no one else to talk to about it. I didn't want to directly say what it was that was bothering me, but I suppose it's pretty obvious now. The film from the NOVA documentary is really what got me; I've never cried reading or watching anything, and this didn't change it, but for some reason I found it very hard to stomach and I knew I wouldn't be able to do the work I wanted if I didn't really give it my all. If nothing else, I've learned a ton from doing it too. I daresay my writing is far from perfect, so your improvements (especially with regard to her impact on linguistics; Curtiss' book and some of the other materials are very hard to come by) are of course quite welcome. Although I really don't care about GAs or FAs, I'd really love to see this article get to the main page some time; not sure if that's realistic, but something to shoot for. And as a side note, I'm wondering if there's perhaps a better title for the article; when I think of a feral child I have someone more like ] in mind. I know there's not really a good word for it (the irony isn't lost on me), but when I look at ], Genie doesn't quite seem to fit with the rest. ] (]) 23:46, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
	:Actually, now I have a concrete issue. www.academia.edu/412729/Contradictions_and_unanswered_questions_in_the_Genie_case_a_fresh_look_at_the_linguistic_evidence is a URL to the 1995 analysis from Peter Jones, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the URL to be a link. If you could figure out how to fix it, or at least where to go to get it fixed, that'd be great. ] (]) 00:12, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
	:::::Re your link problenm -- you left out the ''http://'' ] (]) 15:06, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
	::::::Thanks; my Firefox browser leaves the http:// part out of the URL bar, I occasionally forget that. Now people will actually be able to see what I'm referencing instead of getting directed to a paywall. ] (]) 15:39, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
	:::::::Hope you didn't mind my copyediting -- I love to tinker. Let me know if you want me to wait until later before continuing (or maybe my attention will be diverted by some other shiny object and I'll lose interest). ] (]) 16:32, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
	::::::::No, no; please do whatever you can. This is the first time I've had ''any'' assistance trying to do a major overhaul of an article, it's very helpful. You've already gotten some things I would have completely missed, I'm sure there's plenty more lurking in the background. ] (]) 16:34, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
	::I was kinda scared I would offend you by disobeying the no-message message, so I am glad the contact was welcome! You are doing a great job, and I would love to help: I've just taken on another massive project so I can't do very much for a while, but will do what I can. I'm better on sources - and will see what I can do about getting hold of Curtiss etc - rather than technical things like wikilinks but I will see what I can figure out. It's a good point about the title. Something to think and talk about on the talkpage maybe?
	::As far as getting it on the mainpage, and as a BLP it only needs a two-fold expansion and full citing, so if that interests you I think you could nominate it for that. I agree a GA/FA etc would be fantastic. It would need a bit of work on the linguistic/psychology implications with recent sources, but I am sure it could easily be done. It's looking good at present. ] (]) 00:58, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
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	:::Whatever you can do is hugely appreciated. I'm obviously not finished, as I know the linguistic issues need a lot more work yet, but I figured it'd be easiest to fix some of the formatting issues and wring everything out of the sources we already had first. My trade is history, not linguistics, but I'm usually good at finding whatever information I'm after (getting my JSTOR account will help a ton). As for the title, I guess the talkpage is about as good a place to put it as we'll find, maybe I'll leave a message at one of the village pumps too. ] (]) 02:34, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
	::::Sorry, I didn't spot that you were editing at the time. I'll back off for now. - ] (]) 17:33, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
	:::::Hey, everyone's supposed to be able to edit it whenever; it's totally fine with me. I'm just about finished anyways, so have at it. ] (]) 17:34, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
	::::::Tweaking can wait and edit conflicts are a pain for the person who is making more significant edits. It is good work that you are doing there. BTW, I've just discovered that I may have to change my standard "I have no connection with India" response to accusations of POV pushing etc. It seems from one census return that a great-great-grandmother of mine was born in Bangalore, although she married and lived in Manchester. I'll need to scour the East India Company lists etc for the Bainbridge family in Bangalore, although I think the connection sufficiently distant as not to impact on neutrality! - ] (]) 19:34, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
	:::::::I should think not; I don't consider myself to be particularly biased in articles about various Indian tribes because my great-great-great grandfather was taken captive by a group of them. Good luck with your genealogy project. Anyways, as stated above I should be back in action before too long, and I'll back you up wherever necessary; I just thought it was plain wrong that an article on such a wrenching subject was so inadequate. ] (]) 20:07, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
	::::::::The Genie subject is heartbreaking and it is a new one to me. I'm not really equipped to do more than copyedit because the academic side of things (linguistics etc) is well out of my range and I'd be worried about interpretation of sources etc. My grammar/phrasing is not great and we have the US/English English issue to transcend but I can fiddle with things. This is ''exactly'' the type of article where someone with the abilities of Malleus would come in handy.<p>If the article was a book or newspaper feature then the obvious question would be "what happened next" but, for her sake, I hope that it lies in obscurity. An unhappy note, to be sure, but please do keep digging into this one. I worry slightly about it possibly achieving FA status because of the potential spotlighting (assuming the poor girl is still alive) but, well, it is a "must do" emotive subject that ''can'' be approached neutrally. {{u|Drmies}} might be worth a prod (not a ]!), both for ce and for linguistics. My best wishes: content-writing admins who also act as admins are a rare breed and it is appreciated. - ] (]) 01:20, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
	:::::::::Like I said, any kind of help is hugely appreciated; I'm no linguist myself, though I am familiar with the subject and who the best people to look for are (it'd be hard to get a BA in history without ''some'' knowledge of it). Unlike ] ] ] ] out of nothing or almost nothing, it's great to have people to work with, and I have no intentions of stopping (my primary hangups are getting ahold of Curtiss' dissertaion and trying to find some post-1980's works on her). I may give Drmies a message, though I certainly wouldn't want to saddle anyone with something like this on Christmas. As to the "what happens next", aside from knowing she's still alive we really have nothing after 2008, and given how negatively transient faces in her life seem to have affected her I also hope it stays that way. What's made this so hard is how this manages to produce a lot of ratcheted-up feelings all at once; I've tried (and IRL completely failed) to explain how difficult it becomes to dispasssionately write about a subject that evokes so many powerful emotions. The NOVA documentary is very hard to watch, but it's very captivating; if nothing else, it shows that enough evil can overcome even the greatest amount of compassion. Does put things into perspective... maybe I'll need to update ] after all this is done. ] (]) 04:44, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
	::::::::::Do you still need a copy of Curtiss' dissertation? It is available on JSTOR and I can email it to you. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 4px 1px 3px;white-space:nowrap">''']'''.''']'''</small> 14:45, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
	:::::::::::Hm. I went a bit further with my history studies than a BA but had never heard of Genie before seeing this thread. Cambridge is known for its ] but nonetheless this one has passed me by, along with about 99.9% of all other knowledge and 100% of MMA knowledge I am possibly inching towards 99.8% but, really, I'm more than happy to leave the MMA stat where it stands currently ;) Have a nice day. - ] (]) 14:55, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
	::::::::::::You do too. And AnkhMopork; that would be incredibly helpful if you could send that to me. I would be eternally grateful. ] (]) 18:51, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
	:::::::::::::Please email me so that I can send it as a file attachment. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 4px 1px 3px;white-space:nowrap">''']'''.''']'''</small> 19:16, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
	:::::::::::::Sent. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 4px 1px 3px;white-space:nowrap">''']'''.''']'''</small> 19:40, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
	::::::::::::::And received and downloaded without a hitch; thanks again!! ] (]) 19:45, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
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	I stopped by just to see what you were up to, now that I've started editing more frequently again, and read the conversations above. I've tried to pitch in with copy-editing. Please revert anything you don't think improves the article. This overhaul is obviously, and understandably, a project close to your heart. Given our prior collaborations and your help in providing me guidance, perspective and a powerful example of how[REDACTED] - and[REDACTED] editors - should work, I would never intentionally do anything to degrade your efforts. So please accept what's useful and revert what's not. ] (]) 22:45, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
	:::::Myself, I make it a point to do a "Blade degrade" once in a while (e.g. ) just to keep in practice. Mercifully it will be quite some time before Genie turns 110 (David, you will know what I'm talking about). ] (]) 01:38, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
	:Hey, great to see you back! Your efforts so far have proven quite helpful; I just made a massive addition and tweaked a few other things here and there, I didn't see anything you did which I had to correct. Thank you so much for helping out; this is ''so'' much nicer than trying to do it by myself. ] (]) 23:10, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
	::Blade. do you have JSTOR access or not? I seem to recall your name being somewhere in the deep mix on the recent WMF initiative page. I thought that you were inside the Blessed 100 but, if not, then just ping me if you need anything because - yey! - I was. I've already been really hitting the thing, although without much evidence of that so far on WP. Behind the scenes, it is already proving to be very useful. You'll probably already know that I am a "sources" person but the research sometimes takes a while to show. I'm more than happy to run general searches if you are not sure what it is that you are looking for. - ] (]) 00:37, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
	:::I got a message from Steven Walling, I'll need to sit down and figure out how to activate it; now that the sources most readily available to me are starting to run dry, I can't avoid it anymore. In the interim, anything you can do is most appreciated; I can still see some gaps I want to fill in. ] (]) 01:10, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
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	FYI, I'm holding off on more copyediting until content contribution has settled down. Can't concentrate with all the construction going on! ] (]) 05:49, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
			Hi, does which includes the words "He's not coming back anytime in the future ..." mean you have information that JarlaxleArtemis is not a current threat? I ask because ] said the reason for the of Breitbart News to the spam blacklist was . ] (]) 16:47, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
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			:Yes, in 2018 he was still active but as of now we have good reason to think he won't be anytime in the near future. Still a good idea to have that on the blacklist though. ] (]) 17:28, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
			::I think "spamming" can be a reason to put on a spam blacklist but "good idea" is insufficient. Is ] an appropriate forum to bring this to? ] (]) 17:57, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
			:::It's not a reliable source, and it is used to spread disinformation (and also publishes personal attacks on Misplaced Pages editors by banned trolls). We're vastly better off without it. If it ever comes off the blacklist it will have to go into an edit filter. The blacklist is more efficient. ''']''' <small>(] - ])</small> 15:50, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
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	Hi there Blade. I can't say I really understand all that went on, but I did read a really great comment you made about our all having "Misplaced Pages" as an "armor" .. I don't have the diff right at the moment, but I thought it was an absolutely wonderful sentiment. Kudos to you for such sage thoughts in what was apparently a real mess. All my best to you and yours through the rest of the season. ... and thank you for always being a voice of kindness and reason. <small><span style="border:1px solid #000000;padding:1px;"><b>]</b> : ]</span></small> 17:15, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
	:Thanks; I happened to be listening to a song called Armor and Sword, and I thought the analogy would work pretty well (most of it is about relationships). As is fairly obvious above, I've been kinda in the zone on one article, but I happened to check AN to make sure my name hadn't been mentioned somewhere and saw all that... what a mess. Can't feel all that horrible about it (I have the article I'm working on for that), but it's still not good to see. I hope things eventually clear up one way or another. ] (]) 17:22, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
	::Oh my - I just read through the Genie article. (some very nice work by the way). Reading something like that certainly does tend to put things into perspective. That would be a tough subject to devote time to. — <small><span style="border:1px solid #000000;padding:1px;"><b>]</b> : ]</span></small> 18:00, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
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	I gather your "Do Not Disturb" sign is meant to be down now, maybe? If not send me somewhere else, but since I know you have a tender place in your heart for those whom life has dealt bad hands, I wonder if you can take a look at . My concern is (a) that no one seems to have followed up on the actual deletion, which is inevitable, and (b) that when that happens, it be done with a bit more gentleness than has been manifest to date. ] (]) 14:21, 19 January 2013 (UTC) P.S. Can I copyedit now? Huh? Huh? Can I can I can I?
	:Well, I did leave the sign up intentionally, but I'm more than happy to help out with that situation; it's not ''total'' isolation. As for the copyediting, have at it; I'm not going to be able to do anything really substantial on the article for several hours, so it's all yours. ] (]) 17:22, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
			Hi BotNL, are we seeing another block evasion by Lima16? <s>They've also gone after Magnolia's edits as payback for being reverted.</s> ] (]) 04:30, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
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			:Not sure. From reading Magnolia667's talkpage this account seems to be a bit more willing to take on feedback, but the edits were also less than helpful. I'll keep an eye on it. ] (]) 20:26, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
			::Agreed about willingness to engage, which I also noticed. But the edit pattern, article choices and occasional language difficulties ring familiar. As well, they sometimes edit while signed out, as at ], so those actions can be added for scrutiny, if that's the proper term. ] (]) 00:01, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
			::And as I recall, Lima16 initially pretended to accept feedback. ] (]) 00:02, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
			:::Makes sense. If I see any edits similar to the ones this user has just claimed to disavow, it'll be an immediate block. I'm carefully watching now. Thanks for letting me know about this. ] (]) 01:47, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
			::::Thank you. I'm inclined to view edits by new users that don't improve the article as block evasion. There was recently a disagreement about adding a nondescript photo of the aforementioned ferry, and now this non sequitur was added to the intro. ] (]) 18:53, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
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	...whatever they are, I thought you might be interested in , though Í've not the foggiest idea what they're talking about. ] (]) 23:30, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
	:A macron is the horizontal line over letters; o without, ō with. They're used in Japanese romaji to indicate a vowel with two ]; for instance, chizu means map but chīzu means cheese. The other common way to indicate two morae is to write two vowels; chiizu would also be fine for cheese (for e and o, you'd do this as ''ei'' and ''ou'', hence ]). I'll look into the discussion later. ] (]) 23:38, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
	::I thought it was something like:
	:::''Captain:'' But Spock -- how is that possible?
	:::''Spock:'' It appears, Captain, to be a macron-based life form unlike any with which I am familiar. However, on Beta Antares 4 there have been reports of --"
	:::''Captain:'' Oh, shut up, will you for once, Spock?
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			Life is good ] (]) 04:49, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
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	Just so there's no misunderstanding, while I may push back a little I believe that the sum of my slash-burn-relentlessly-boil-down approach plus the tempering instincts of someone less expositorily bloodthirsty such as yourself, works well. Because I trust you I don't always review everything you do, which means that sometimes I will reintroduce a change you backed out, because I might not recall whether I actually /did/ something, versus just thought about doing it. If that happens and you feel strongly, just re-revise. If I still don't get the point, better Talk me.
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	:Yes, I'm finding the process rather engaging. I have no problem with you removing anything, I can always readd it if necessary; if anything, your removals have helped a lot, as an outside view will sometimes catch things that either should be removed or need clarification on why it's useful information. Absolutely nothing being taken personally, your editing has been ''enormously'' helpful. I'm somewhat prone to overusing parentheses myself, so I'm perhaps a bit oversensitive to trying to cut them out, and no objections to your dashes. ] (]) 23:06, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
			We may leaven the event with a few impromptu ]s, a Wiki-fashion show (yes, really!), and likely an afterparty tour.
	::Good, <u>gooood!</u> My plan is working <u>perrr</u>fectly. '''' ] (]) 23:22, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
	:::Heh. The line which seems to be giving us the most trouble now had never caught my attention, as it was there before I was, so I'll see if I can work it out. I think I've ''finally'' parsed why the book notes it (if it was worded any more ambiguously I never would have understood it, and compounding the problem is that I'm from ] in which everything is run by the state; there is no county-level organization), and your wording seems as good as anything I'm likely to come up with. ] (]) 23:40, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
	::::Also, to save you a bit of work the Early life, Second foster home, Debate, and Related studies sections were worked over by someone else, so you probably won't have to worry too much about those. Slp1 and David in DC seem to be a lot better at understanding the virtues of brevity than I am... honestly, at least part of what captivates me is the fact that, apart from our mutual difficulties with certain types of facial recognition, Genie is my diametric opposite. To compensate for my total ineptitude at non-verbal communication (thank you PDD-NOS...), I've developed an extremely large vocabulary and a proclivity to use it to excess, so this gives me some insight into the other extreme end of communication difficulty. ] (]) 00:21, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
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	== Topic ban violation by Maurice ==
			== Japanese ==
	Hello, I wanted to let you know that Maurice is violating his topic ban with this edit , which in addition is entirely unexplained, petty, and bordering on mean-spirited. He is now edit-warring over it, without even providing any justification for his actions, just personal attacks . He has already been blocked once for violating his topic ban . Any help in dealing with this disruption would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, ] (]) 00:55, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
	:Yeah, those are really bad. Blocked for a week. ] (]) 02:17, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
			Hello Blade! On your userpage you say that you can help out with transliterations of Japanese. Would you mind helping me out with the Japanese on ]? Some of the Romaji on the page is simply just what appears to be the translation of the Japanese name rather than the transliteration of the Katakana. ― ]]<sub title="Discord Username" style="margin-left:-22q;">Blaze&nbsp;Wolf#6545</sub> 20:07, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
	==Talkback==
	{{talkback|Scottywong|Possible additional statistic collection for NPP report|ts=10:17, 27 January 2013 (UTC)}}
	FYI ] (]) 10:17, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
			:I'll take a look through when I get a chance, should be in the next day or so. My Japanese is rusty enough that it's probably a tetanus hazard, but I can still handle katakana reasonably well. ] (]) 21:29, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
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			== Vandals: Dmhw, Ylogm ==
	Check your email. Enjoy! ]<sup> ]&#124;]</sup> 21:40, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
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			Hi, I noticed that recently ] and ] have vandalized and blanked several pages regarding the Ming dynasty of China. They have been warned numerous times to stop blanking and removing content from pages, yet they continue to do so. Could you please stop or block them since they are clearly not listening to other users?
	== Thanks for the assistance in squashing vandals! ==
			Also, their editing habits appear similar to ]. For example, Ylogm and Dmhw have similar usernames (string of random letters). They also edit similar articles within a close time interval that few other users edit such as , , , , , , , , any many other articles.
	I owe you thanks for helping to squish vandals on my userspace. You should be rewarded for being diligent, swift, and helpful to users. Thanks again! --Thomas (]) (]) 20:42, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
			These similar editing habits suggest that Ylogm, Dmhw are the same user. After Ylogm was blocked on March 3, 2023, the account Dmhw was created on March 8 to evade the block . Could the vandal Dmhw please be investigated and blocked?
	== ANI ==
			Thank you very much. ] (]) 00:57, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
	What protection level did you apply to ANI? I'd never seen it before, is it different from semi-protection?&nbsp;]&nbsp;] 23:36, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
	:It's standard semiprotection; not sure why the message was different, but it's just regular semiprotection. ] (]) 23:47, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
			:So are these people the same person? Le Sisi,
	== ] Violation ==
			:Huang Arataki Lan Yu, Duan Zuolin, Caishikou,.. etc ] (]) 01:05, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
			::Don't interrupt: that's rude. ] (]) 01:06, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
			*Hey--I can't do all the legwork right now, but I ran a few checks. User:Dmhw is the same as User:Trinh N Hien and User:Freeman6000 and User:CaptainPhilly--and, after I checked a few of them, Ylogm. Blade, I gotta run, but please drop blocks on those accounts and don't be afraid to make them CU blocks. They are all identical. There's also significant logged-out editing, so maybe writing up an SPI and asking a CU for a couple more rangeblocks is appropriate. Sorry I can't do it right now. ] (]) 01:06, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
			**Added to the current SPI case and requested CU. I didn't provide any additional information, yet referenced this thread. ~ ] (]) 01:15, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
			***I put all the IPs from one range together but it was way too big for a range block. There's an overlap with ] but that's a coincidence, I think. ] (]) 01:34, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
			****Based on contributions alone I'd agree, it appears to just be a coincidence. ~ ] (]) 01:37, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
	Hi Blade. I would like to inform you that ] violated ] ban on Macedonian language (and I think on Bulgars and South Slavs as well), while at the same time called me an idiot in this edit summary when I reverted his edit (he of course apologised to me when I asked him for the reason of that edit summary). ] (]) 08:32, 10 February 2013 (UTC)		Hi, Dmhw / Ylogm is back again under the new account ], blanking contents from the same pages: , , . Could this account be stopped as well? Thank you. ] (]) 04:41, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
			== Apr 12 WikiWednesday + Earth Week (Apr 15-23) ==
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	== Venting: What cannot be said in article space ==
			Hi! Just thought I'd ask if you, as an admin, consider {{no ping|AroDude}}'s behaviour blockable. They're a new editor who's mostly concerned with creating userboxes and making friends rather than building the encyclopedia in my opinion. In the past day they've ], lied about their age (see same thread, not necessarily against policy AFAIK but just dodgy), and ]. With still no edits to mainspace or article drafts of their own in their 139 edits so far, considering all the hassle they're causing, I thought I'd ask you if blocking them temporarily makes sense. I don't think ANI, where I'd usually take these issues, is suitable for a new editor like them so I'm asking you as an admin that's recently active. — ] <sup>( ] / ] ) </sup> &#8258; <small> ]. </small> 16:05, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
	(No need to read this. I'm just annoyed and taking you up on your invitation. Nothing to do with you or anything you've edited.)
			:Hi, sorry I missed this yesterday. I see someone has warned AroDude already, and I think that's sufficient for now; if anything else happens, let me know and I won't hesitate to block. ] (]) 12:41, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
			::They were eventually blocked for socking, weirdly enough both new users they had interacted with are socks of the same master. The wiki never fails to surprise. — ] <sup>( ] / ] ) </sup> &#8258; <small> ]. </small> 13:07, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
			:::Yeah, there are some things I just don't get. Good lord. Let me know if you see suspicious new accounts, I'll take care of it. ] (]) 13:20, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
			== Sat: Earth Day Edit-a-thon + Sun: Wiki-Picnic ==
	Consider what these two sentences have in common:
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	Neither statement can be sourced reliably&mdash;not surprising as no one has been interested sufficiently in either topic to write about articles that fail to contain an anecdote or performances that have never been scheduled. Yet any competent editor could sit down and, after some amount of research, conclude that both sentences are likely accurate. There is no mechanism for getting this information back to the reader.
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	And why does this matter? "Parable" cites ''all'' the scientific papers that quote it, and "Sangriita" will no doubt list every RAWA-sponsored performance. This leaves the impression on the reader that these examples are drawn from a larger population when the editors well know this is not at all the case.
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	And yet... this state of affiars prevents creationists from claiming "There is no evidence the ''Ichthus Heliodiplodokus'' evolved." Of course this is true (and not only because the fish never existed), but this is not the entire story: the same human impulse to write only what is considered important means the fact of evolution is not notarized in peer-reviewed journals for every species discovered. The cure here is far worse than the disease.
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			== Deletion of 2023 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Pool B ==
	<small><span style="color:gray"><tt>]<span style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:1em">]<br/>]</span></tt></span></small> 07:31, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
	:I've looked it over, and all I can say is wow. I feel your pain on both fronts, if there's anything I can do to assist you on either one I'm more than happy to step in. It's hard to believe either one of those could go on like that... glad you got your frustrations out here, I mean it when I say this is a fine place to vent. ] (]) 18:06, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
			I do disagree with a deletion of the article "2023 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Pool B" that has sat for a week at two keeps and two deletes and one other editor confused at to why this article should be deleted (without formally saying keep. It finally got another "delete but merge" today after 7 days of nothing and you deleted it? That's not enough consensus in my book to delete an article. This could also be looked at as 3 keeps, 1 merge, and 2 deletes. I wont challenge the full deletion, though I'm disappointed, but I require the contents be put in a sandbox page of mine so I can merge the contents into the main article. Really this should have at the very least been a redirect instead of delete because many other articles just like this exist that it is likely a search term for our readers. Thank you. ] (]) 01:45, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
	== Lightning talk ==
			:I can restore the contents to your sandbox, give me one moment. I wouldn't treat this as a "delete it forever and salt" situation, to be sure, so if a redirect makes sense (this isn't my strongest topic area) I certainly don't object. ] (]) 01:51, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
	Hi Blade. There is a (low!) possibility that I can swing by for an hour in the afternoon on Saturday. Any idea when you'll give your talk on Indian castes? --] <small>(])</small> 16:08, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
	:Not entirely sure, I think we did it early afternoon last time, around 1. That'd be awesome if you could make it. ] (]) 16:49, 21 February 2013 (UTC)		:Content is now at ]. ] (]) 01:53, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
			::Thank you. It's probably 50/50 on the redirect. My only concern would be that I will now be merging the contents of the article into the main article at ] and the actual wikipedians that created the contents will get no credit for their writing. I would just plop it in as if it were my own creation. With a redirect at least the original creators would still be listed and I can do a proper merge with links back to the redirect page. ] (]) 02:05, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
	::I'll try to be there at 1. Might have to drag a seven year old along (not easy!). --] <small>(])</small> 17:00, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
	:::Good luck with that; as the oldest of 4 siblings, I have some idea of what that can be like. ] (]) 17:16, 21 February 2013 (UTC)		:::If you think that would be the best move, I can restore the history at the redirect. Let me know, that would only take a couple clicks to sort out (I'm on EST, so if I drop off for several hours here I'm not ignoring you). ] (]) 02:51, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
			::::I went ahead and merged the contents with the summary saying it was from the deleted article. If it gets redirected I can put the merge info on the redirect talk page and the summary will turn to a blue link rather than a red link. If not it will be a red link that someone can ask to see the contents from an administrator. I'm not sure what's best as my area of expertise is tennis and yours is more on the MOS handling of editor history. Personally I think I redirect to "2023 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone" with a keeping of history is best. Thanks for the help. ] (]) 02:58, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
	::::I just rechecked the schedule; it says they're doing it at 2:30, though somehow I get the sense it's going to start a little earlier than that. ] (]) 17:36, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
			:::::You had nearly an entire month to preemptively copy the content to your sandbox while this AFD was running. You “suddenly” being confronted with the content disappeared is mostly only you. Besides how much effort is it really to recreate this BJK Cup results tables somewhere else?? Your frustrated comments here directed at the deleting admin are seriously misplaced. As for the suggestion for a redirect, I seriously doubt that anyone is ever going to type the full “2023 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Pool B” in the search box and cannot see this being a valid option. Interested reader are more likely going to go the edition’s main article and then navigate '''down''' from there, rather going '''up''' from the lowest level. So I think a history merge would be the right course of action here.]]]1 13:14, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
	::::::That pushes it back a bit. But I'll try. I will be downtown anyway, just gotta make it work somehow with the kids. --] <small>(])</small> 02:13, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
	:::::::Good luck with it, and I hope to see you there. ] (]) 06:28, 22 February 2013 (UTC)		::::::I can do a histmerge as well, this would be a fairly simple one. This isn't really my topic area (I'm a baseball guy first and foremost) so I have no strong feelings. ] (]) 14:46, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
	Stuck uptown. Enjoy! --] <small>(])</small> 16:16, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
	:Do you have a transcript, Blade? Or is it all done ad lib? - ] (]) 16:36, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
	::(ec) A video version perhaps? --] <small>(])</small> 16:37, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
	:::Yeah, yeah, There's the systemic bias again. <g> What we need is an audio-visual version: either both a transcript and a vid, or a vid with subtitles. In every language, of course. But do we really want to see what Blade looks like? In fact, does Blade really want people to see what they look like? To have an identifiable image circulating the web when dealing with caste stuff? I've had death threats just for the written version! More seriously, anything would be better than nothing - "owt is better than nowt", as people around my environs say. You have my email addy if that is preferable. - ] (]) 01:42, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
	::::I have a transcript, I'll send it to both of you tomorrow after I get off work. ] (]) 05:00, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
			== May 17: WikiWednesday Salon + Queering Misplaced Pages ==
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			== Likely sockpuppet of Jgwikid ==
			Hello,
			] (who appears to be a sockpuppet of ]; see ] and an ]) has a pattern of feeling like they "own" pages, undoing substantial good edits (other users have ]) and ]. I'm posting here because you have taken action in the past and also to ask what is the official way of notifying admins of suspected sockpuppets in future when the case has been archived? Thanks. ] (]) 23:42, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
			:Dear, you have some kind of mania. You enter unsourced or false information (, her 3 tour races and results are not mentioned in the ref. given, or you write nonsense about postponement of nonexistent championships). Some of your edits are in fact "substantial bad edits". You removed info about national titles for Bisset while for all athletes we do mention them in the second paragraph of the lede. You did trim notable info from lede for Ingebrigtsen - he has rather bigger intro as he has a lot of notable achievements, he is not your Catriona Bisset, he is World No. 1.
			: Both users that you mentioned '''eventually did thank me''' because one is doing nonsense for Italian athletes (no competition table updates, Italian style formatting in English Misplaced Pages, tragic grammar), while second was removing valid national records from records lists, leaving wrong data and not supplying ref.
			: Sorry for one small Ingebrigtsen revert - I thought his current coach is not the ref. but there is this info. So I am sorry. (I know his brother is coaching him now but we need source for everything).
			: So please, try to improve your "substantial good edits" and do not trim leads of best world athletes with a lot of titles and achievements. ] (]) 00:50, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
			::Hi ], could you please point me to the guidelines for what should be included in sports ledes? If you're adhering to community standards it would be useful to know. If it's only in your head, perhaps we should find a place to discuss it for future reference. I've been trying to make ledes readable (it is meant to be a summary, not an exhaustive list of all achievements), and in the case of Ingebrigtsen's article, I didn't remove achievements but shifted them to other places in the article (for instance, the Kipchoge pacing appeared only in the lede but not the main article). ] (]) 01:07, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
			:::Hello. Please check ] by ]. This is a super star though, 5 world titles - but all important achievements are mentioned in the intro.
			:::There are no guidelines as far as I know but I am updating more than 600 athletes and I'm trying to be consistent for all.
			:::For average runner we mention in the first paragraph: all world and area medals + all world and area records. This is notable enough. (Areas: Europe, North America (NACAC), South America, Asia and Oceania. Oceania is rather small area and not so notable but areas are as recognized by World Athletics.)
			:::For second paragraph we mention world and area U20 and U18 medals, national records and national titles (only titles, not silvers or bronzes).
			::::edit: You can check how it looks like for current combined events stars ] and ]. For comparison two-time Olympic champions and world champions: ] or ].
			:::Then there are some world best athletes who made notable (first in history or while the youngest in history) doubles or triples like ], ], ] or ] - info about these achievements is also notable enough for first or second paragraph.
			:::BTW. You are more than welcome to edit Ingebrigtsen as he has very poor article - it was not updated and written on time by people and now is rather empty. I limited myself just to good personal bests table, some most important info in the body of the article and photos. '''His intro probably could be condensed a little''' but carefully as he is No. 1 with many notable doubles and "firsts".
			:::And sorry for this small Ingebrigtsen revert - I will add later info about his current coach or you will do it. ] (]) 11:21, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
			::::edit: And as you are from Australia, please update also ] (she had very poor article), ] and others..., not only Bisset ;) because you are the first to wise up and not so first to do real, hard job of constant updates.
			::::I'm a bit strapped for time right now, so I can't take a deep dive. If you think this is a sock account, start an investigation at ]. In the meantime, for any content disputes take it to the talkpage. ] (]) 14:01, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
			:::::Hi BotNL, I've taken a look at this user's contributions, and at a few other factors, and am persuaded that it is very likely to be a sock of Jgwikid - I've blocked, and tagged as suspected. Best ]] 12:33, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
			::::::Thanks. Yeah, I would normally have been happy to take care of this myself, but RL last week was ridiculous for me. Hoping that it calms down in the next couple days. Much obliged for the assist! ] (]) 18:01, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
			== Block evasion by 2001:268:9800::/40 ==
			Hi! A couple of days ago you blocked {{noping|2001:268:9800::/40}} for persistently adding unsourced content, after my report on ]. I notice that two new IPs have appeared, making very much the same edits to the same articles as the blocked IP:
			{{user links|133.32.22.193}}
			{{user links|39.110.250.214}}
			Neither one has made a huge number of edits yet, but all their edits are very similar to those of the blocked IP. This is particularly evident on ]. I suspect the blocked editor is evading the block. ] (]) 17:47, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
			:I blocked the IP that most recently edited and rolled back what I could, let me know if more show up. ] (]) 20:50, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
			::Thank you! ] (]) 23:48, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
			:Hi, sorry to bother you again, but this persistent editor seems to have reappeared again, this time with a new account ]. This account has repeated the same edits to ] and other articles that the blocked IP has edited. I wonder if some of these articles should be protected as well as blocking the socks. ] (]) 17:11, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
			::No problem. User blocked, I semiprotected Matsusaka Generation; let me know what else I should hit and I will. If it continues after that, take it to ] and someone more experienced at this than me can take a look (page protection isn't my strongest suit, though I know enough that this needs it). ] (]) 22:46, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
			== K. Annamalai ==
			Hi! As I can see you have deleted the ] article. The ] article still exists. You deleted the ex-IPS officer's wikipage citing that he is a "non-notable person". This is absolutely preposterous and quite frankly malicious too. The current person (ex-MLA from 2001) at ] is the real insignificant personality, who is vastly unrecognized and with only 2 citations supporting the entire article. Applying your logic why isn't that article deleted too? On the other hand, the K. Annamalai(ex-IPS officer) is notable leader in the vibrant political gamut of India with numerous citaions to prove his prominence. Now you tell me, what the problem is with creating an article in his name. ] (]) 08:31, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
			:Read the deletion discussion and you will understand. ] (]) 15:52, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
			::I have read the discussion again. However, you are still not explaining why ] is not deleted. ] (]) 08:23, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
			:::No one is stopping you from nominating it for deletion. ] (]) 01:28, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
			== June 21: WikiWednesday Salon back in Manhattan! ==
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			==Interface deletion==
			Ok, I'll bite, what combination of permissions allowed you to do that? :-) --] 16:34, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
			:I... don't know, honestly. Maybe because I'm also an oversighter, I'm not an intadmin. I just saw the note, it came up with the standard deletion page, and I hit delete. ] (]) 20:27, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
			::{{tps}} If you're referring to userspace JS/CSS pages, then any admin can actually delete those; only editing and ''un''deleting require intadmin rights. ]&nbsp;]] 19:20, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
			== An Official Investigation ==
			I want to submit an official investigation into what happened today regarding the two articles ], ] and either the result of the investigation is that I am guilty and I am banned from editing on Misplaced Pages, or that the editors who treated me disrespectfully apologize to me and take back the article and a clear and frank apology on my talk page.
			What happened was the clear disregard of the editors for people's minds and the use of their absolute power and acting as if Misplaced Pages belonged to them after fulfilling the conditions for the articles and talking to the help section in Misplaced Pages, and in the end they agreed with me on the note of the two articles. The editors come here and their words and their dealings differ. '''After advising the user @] to apply for a revision of the draft to become an article, he deletes the draft and recklessly thinks about it. Is this a trap or what?''' After adding all the sources they want, he says that this is a paid article. As for the second article, he did not find anything that says except that this article was written by me in a publicity way. Deleting it from the beginning of the post I will not be sad, but I am saddened by the lack of respect he found here. I don't care about the two articles as much as I care about a clear and frank apology.
			Here the from the User and the from him. ] (]) 19:38, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
			== July 19 WikiWednesday + New York Botanical Garden Edit-a-thon (July 29) ==
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			== Request block of Benstone84th t 5 ==
			Good day! I would like to ask a favor to request the block of ] because they keep on vandalizing articles and when I reverted their edits he proceeded on vandalizing my own userpage. I hope you can help me on this matter. Thank you. ] ] 15:42, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
			:Done. ] (]) 18:26, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
			::I'm grateful. I really appreciate you doing this. ] ] 20:28, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
			:::You got it, no problem. ] (]) 22:38, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
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			== SPI Case that I opened on ChocChimpanzee5 ==
			Hi there, I opened a SPI case on ChocChimpanzee5 but I saw you blocked them for sockpuppetry, so thanks! Can you close that case so it is not in the SPI clerks way. Thanks! ] (]) 18:47, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
			== ] ==
			You may want to disable their talkpage access. Thanks. ] (]) 18:58, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
			== Revdel ==
			Thanks for doing that revdel. Please can you also revdel from the same person on a different ip from earlier? (Apologies if this is inappropriate to ask.) Best, ]] 15:55, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
			:(don’t worry - taken care of {{smiley}}) ]] 16:07, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
			::No problem, someone was a little quicker on the draw than me. Let me know if any more comes up and I'll take care of it. ] (]) 16:30, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
			== Sun Oct 1: NYC Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month 2023 ==
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			== Your block of 41.62.198.95 ==
			Hey, I ran across another IP they were using yesterday: from the same range. &nbsp; &ndash;] (]) 18:19, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
			:Oh, and they are by the way.
			::Blocked, thanks for the tip. ] (]) 18:31, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
			== Oops, ==
			forgot you had OS. Silly me. ] ] 16:54, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
			== Balkanite sanction ==
			Hey, while I don't have any issue with the 500/6month sanction, the subject area of "Serbian and Croatian topics" seems to be a bit off the mark given that their disruptive editing has purely focused on Bosniak identity, and to a significant degree in the context of immigrant enclaves outside of former Yugoslavia. Beyond being somewhat inadequate, the mix up could be seen as insulting by them. <sub>signed, </sub>] <sup>]</sup> 14:04, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
			:Yeah, it's been a while since I've closed one of these. That's basically what I was going for, I but I worded it horribly, I managed to completely confuse myself with Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian. I'll fix it. ] (]) 14:08, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
			== Wiki.NYC Pavilion for Open House New York (Oct 21–22) and Wikidata Day (Oct 29) ==
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			== Incredible work on Genie! ==
			Hello Blade. I've never had a Misplaced Pages account before but I felt compelled to create one tonight just to give you congratulations on your work on ]. On 4 June (same day Susan Curtiss first met her) of this year, a friend and I were having a chat about similarly abused children and he sent me the Misplaced Pages page on Genie. I read the entire thing within a couple hours. By the end, I was crying. I am not a very emotional person but this story reached out and touched me profoundly. I have never read such an impactful Misplaced Pages article in my life, and dare I say, it changed my life. The photograph of her face they used in all the newspapers at the time is still seared into my brain with a hot branding iron. What a haunting expression.
			I've since purchased and read books about her and other isolated children, among other interesting sources I've found. I've read some of the previous topics in this Talk page and I've glanced over your thousands of edits over the past decade on Genie's article. I think it's safe to say that you've forgotten more about her story than I'll ever learn. I can't imagine the effect it's had on you. It's such a complex mixture of emotions her story evokes in me, but they are all very ''strong'' emotions. Anyway, I heavily related with everything you've had to say about her over the years and it makes me feel a lot better knowing that I'm not alone in this regard. Over 10 years after your work began on this article, and over 50 years after Genie was rescued from such unfathomable conditions, there are still people like me who are learning about her for the first time, and her article is the perfect place to start. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your devotion, commitment, and contributions to her article, and by extension, I feel, to her very legacy. ] (]) 04:31, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
			:Thank you! Yes, it was (and to an extent remains) quite an undertaking, and was some of the hardest research I've ever done, but I'm glad for all the time I put into it. For all that's there, some of the details that aren't are just as if not more horrific, and that's just from what's publicly available; goodness knows what the doctors and the research team found out while working with her. Knowing that more people can learn about her case from my work is very satisfying, and I'm glad you got so much out of it! ] (]) 17:02, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
			::Yes, some of the lesser-known details of abuse I've come across are absolutely horrifying. I can't imagine some of the stories Susan Curtiss had heard but elected not to share.
			::I have a couple of small edit suggestions (I would do them myself but I can't). First of all, your final edit on 6 September left the sentence "...since she her brain activity was so right-hemisphere dominant". The "she" should be removed.
			::Second of all, I tried to find this bit in the revision history of the English page but I failed. I didn't even know this existed until I checked the Spanish and French pages. There's an American indie rock band called Killjoy Confetti who released an in 2006. One of the songs on this album is called , and the . I think it would be a good inclusion to the Media category of the English page, and I'm kinda surprised I didn't see it there before. Maybe there's a reason for its exclusion, I'm not sure.
			::Thank you so much for your time and response! ] (]) 17:24, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
			:::Good to know. I'm just about to fix the grammar issue, and when I have some more time I'll look into the song. Much appreciated! ] (]) 17:54, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
			== I would like further explanation regarding my block ==
			Found this highly offensive and unproffesional of you. I fought a lot of vandalists in Misplaced Pages and spent a lot of hours in monitoring. None of my edits are for a "game" purpose, I am editing also regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but I never did anything for a bad cause, tilted a vote, attacked or violated anything. I even got a barnstar for monitoring vandalism. Where did assuming good intentions gone? You are just gonna block anyone without even hearing all sides? ] (]) 17:42, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
			:You began patrolling right after , to get enough edits as quickly as possible. After reaching 500 edits you stopped. Rushing edits as quick as possible just to get a permission is gaming. ] (]) 18:03, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
			::I didn't stop, I just continued participating in discussions which I'm allowed to do even without any permissions. Again this is an assumption of bad faith, even though that my edits are not bad faith or "fake edits", I also didn't stop monitoring, I did become more invested in recent events but not because of reaching anything, I also barely used my permission on anything. The timing of Nableezy's allegations were after me confronting him of being not respectful towards other users in talk pages, this on the other hand is bad faith and not communal behavior. I have contributed to the Wikimedia project in general for years, through Wikicommons, Wikidata and through other languages of Misplaced Pages, and I take an assumption like this of bad faith in a really personal manner. Never mistreated anybody and never talked to anybody agressively or badly.
			::I ask for the ban to be cancelled, if you see I abuse by any means the "granted permissions" sure, take them away. Good intention is not there for fun, it's there for better community. Blocking a person and saying their edits are fake or rushed to go fight over some conflict is not assuming good intentions. ] (]) 18:18, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
			:::@] the last person who tried this (the thread is still on ANI),got blocked while I was trying to remove ecp, so consider yourself lucky. ] ] 18:41, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
			::::] blocked you. I presume you are talking about your topic ban. ] ] 18:46, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
			== Nov 15: WikiWednesday Salon + Wikimedia NYC Executive Director job ==
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			:Thanks! I saw your AN notice, right after I took care of TPA I had to deal with a short RL situation so someone archived it before I could note it there. Let me know if this guy crops up again. ] (]) 15:28, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
			::I can't promise that I'll be able to let you know if I see him again. I didn't really look into his behavioral patterns, though I might need to do so for if I do stumble upon him again... ] (]) 16:15, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
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	Hi Blade. IP {{userlinks|188.3.111.74}} is {{user|Maurice07}} evading his AE-imposed ban on Greece-related topics. Please note: for which the master got blocked in the first place. Here the IP is removing information about Cyprus in in an edit . Also see stylistic similarities in edit-summaries: and Maurice07: . Many of the IP edits are also onomatological edit-warring of exactly the same type Maurice07 got blocked for and banned from. And of course the , a personal favourite of Maurice07 when he massively edit-warred in the past about the same issue and got his first block on that account. Best regards. ]&nbsp;<small><sup style="position:relative">]<span style="position:relative;bottom:-2.0ex;left:-5.2ex;*left:-5.5ex">]</span></sup></small> 20:28, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
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	Hi again Blade. This is a comment regarding Maurice's current unblock request. The IP 188.3.111.74 . Then at 19:05, on the same day, the same IP goes to Commons and, out of millions of files at Commons, alters one of Maurice's files by . Note that this is the only edit the IP has made to Commons. And Maurice07 wants to present this IP edit at Commons, in his unblock request, as proof that the IP is not him. The timing and location of the IP single edit at Commons and Maurice's use of the same IP edit in his subsequent unblock request is ] and that is above and beyond the rest of the flock of evidence. ]&nbsp;<small><sup style="position:relative">]<span style="position:relative;bottom:-2.0ex;left:-5.2ex;*left:-5.5ex">]</span></sup></small> 20:34, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
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	Hi Blade, I think you might find the case of ] interesting if you have not already heard about it. Here is the youtube documentary (first of five parts): . --] (]) 23:52, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
	:I heard of that story many years ago, but I couldn't remember the name; thanks for that! It certainly didn't hit me quite the way Genie has (at the risk of sounding really strange, I can safely say I was much less rattled after watching video of Auschwitz and Buchenwald than I was after the NOVA documentary; I'm still carrying around a lot of very visceral feelings even now, that's what keeps me so zoned in on it), but it's another very interesting case. Perhaps I'll do some work on that sometime, if I ever do finish the work on Genie and the people around her. ] (]) 01:27, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
	::The parallels are striking though. It is another example of a "forbidden experiment" gone wrong. Also, you are clearly bringing Genie to a feature level article, which is certainly deserves.--] (]) 23:25, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
	:::Indeed; that's another really awful story, and one which should be well-documented. It's a little further out from what I usually do, but certainly something I could handle. As to Genie, I don't personally care about having an FA myself, but enough other people wanted me to let it through that I acquiesced. It's hard, as I have a lot of very strongly held opinions- among others, I seem to be a lot more sympathetic to the scientists at the center of the case than many of the sources, and I have no great love for the horribly misguided actions Genie's mother took; bluntly put, she had her chance and look what happened, the scientists were the people she should have ''begged''- but I think I've managed so far. And while you're here, thanks for copyediting. I have a tendency to produce William Faulkner-esque sentences (ironic, given I'm much more inclined towards reading Hemingway), and cutting those down is very much appreciated. ] (]) 00:05, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
	::::I think you are doing it just right. The thing that really screams out is the foster care system in California, at least at that time. I think the scientists involved were well-intended and Genie did improve early on substantially. If I were conducting the research, I would have focused first on the long-term plan for rehabilitation and then conducted less obtrusive observations to assess progress over time. In the case of David Reimer, there is more of a case for scientific misconduct, but I think there is likely much more to the story that we may never know. I also agree that creating an FA for its own sake is not particularly interesting, but creating high quality one is a great goal and you have done an especially good job of explaining the science.--] (]) 08:35, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
	:::::I remember from the program I watched on Reimer some of the descriptions of the "treatment" Money gave him; what we know is bad enough, but as you say we're probably not going to know everything. Between there being far fewer people at the center of that case and many of those people already being dead, there's probably a lot we'll never know. Honestly, I hope it stays that way, as I think the people around Reimer have been through quite enough already and the details we already have speak for themselves.
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	:::::Same basic thing with Genie; I honestly hope the next time we hear about her is if Susan Curtiss is able to reconnect with her and decides to make a public statement (although who knows, she may have already and decided not to say anything; I really desperately hope that's it). I tend to think the scientists did the best they could in the case, and if they'd had their way things would most likely have turned out ''much'' better. The state foster care system is, as you say, what really what made this so much worse than it had to be, although they wouldn't have been involved if Genie's mother had taken honest stock of her role in Genie's condition and not listened to Ruch (at least Ruch got what was coming to her, though; you couldn't come up with better irony than seeing her rendered aphasic). Honestly, I question the wisdom of even allowing her back into Genie's life, given that her brother wanted nothing to do with his mother after he was 18 and Genie didn't seem to care much about her mother when she was first freed. Back on topic, though, I added another source to the article yesterday out of necessity, as I needed to give some other third-party analysis of Curtiss' dissertation in the Debate section. However, I thought the parts of that source that didn't critique Curtiss' dissertation were unnecessary nastiness towards the scientists, and backed up its assertions with some pretty blatant quote mining to boot; fortunately, though, using sources like that is what I do best (my specialty is the Ainu people, and just about everything written on them is overtly racist and very slanted), so I was able to flesh the good parts of it out. I sincerely thank you for the feedback; I was a little concerned about whether I was giving everything the right amount of weight, and I was unsure how well I presented the more technical linguistic material, so it's good to hear I seem to be doing both well. ] (]) 21:36, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
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	::::::I think you have been tying everything together fantastically well. This type of encyclopedic article that ties it all together is well overdue! If you think it would help, I'll do a search on academic reviews of Curtiss' dissertation--and if I'm recalling correct, subsequent publication as a book--and get back to you with the results.--] (]) 23:28, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
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	:::::::I think it would help a lot; I've been over much of Curtiss' dissertation, but another set of eyes would almost certainly find something I missed. I have one academic review from Susan Goldin-Meadow (whose voluminous works I've started reading through when I'm not either researching Genie or reading Zhuangzi and Gongsun Longzi), more would be really helpful if you can find any. And by the way, completely by chance TLC was running the episode on David Reimer this afternoon, so I was able to refresh my memory of that. If I ever do finish my work on Genie and the people around her (I'm perfectly content to take as long as is necessary), I'll start some work on that as well; looks like that article has more than Genie's when I first started working on it, but I'm sure that'll turn into a huge project of its own. ] (]) 01:45, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
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	:Ah, yes; it was slight hyperbole, but only slight. I think I have a somewhat different way of experiencing emotions, which seems to be fairly common among ], and instead of breaking me down it's driven me (those who know me personally might say to madness, but I'm pretty sure I got ''there'' years ago). If I really started to lose it, I'd know enough to take a break, but I haven't yet. There are definitely a couple sections of the article which are hard to stomach, that being one of them, and the information in that edit especially was not fun to read or write about. I do appreciate your concern; if there was more of this on Misplaced Pages I think it would be a much nicer place all around. And before I go, thank you very much for your work; it hasn't gone unnoticed, and it's been very helpful. ] (]) 16:49, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
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	... is incredible. I just came across it, and I don't ever remember being so utterly absorbed in an article. A sad, difficult and enlightening topic. You've done wonders. ~ ] 20:05, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
	:I don't know how you found it, but I myself originally ended up at the article completely by accident; if I remember correctly, I think I was looking for an instance where it actually made sense to leave out someone's real name. The topic drew me in the same way, although what really did it for me was the NOVA documentary; aside from the very tragic nature of the subject, Genie remains the only person whose face and body language I can read. Everyone who knew her said she had/has some ''way'' of drawing emotions out of people, and the video of her certainly got me too—only very rarely does anything do that to me. I can only imagine what it'd be like to actually get to meet with her in person. Thank you very much for your feedback; I'm more a historian than a linguist, so this has been one hell of a ride putting it together. One of these days I might just finish it, but in the meantime I'm perfectly happy to ride it out as long as necessary. I frequently find myself wishing I could do more for her than simply writing about her on Misplaced Pages, but I can't, so I figure I might as well do what I can do as best as possible. ] (]) 20:16, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
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	:Took me a minute to see what the violation was, but yeah that was an obvious one. Will deal with it now. ] (]) 17:50, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
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	You may recall restoring this page in December -- check the log, you'll remember. Now it's been deleted ''again'' (again under G10, which it certainly is not), right in the middle of AfD and, more importantly, when a discussion among 4 or 5 editors on the article's talk had begun literally an hour earlier, re the reliability of sources (at least one editor familiar with Polish culture and media countering VolunteerMarek's insistence that all the sources are unreliable.) Can you restore again? There seems to be a complete misunderstanding of BLP here.
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	Don't be confused by VolunteerMarek's version, which is stripped down under his belief that all the sources are unreliable -- see, if it helps, this earlier version -- of course the whole edit history would be restored. Sorry to trouble you -- again! ] (]) 20:29, 29 March 2013 (UTC) PS Great work on Genie -- you're like the Energizer Bunny.
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	:''"at least one editor familiar with Polish culture and media countering VolunteerMarek's insistence that all the sources are unreliable"'' - this isn't really true AFAICT, and neither is ''belief that all the sources are unreliable''. TVN is a reliable source. All other ones are indeed unreliable though. Unfortunately the TVN source was/is a very very very minor part of the article.<span style="color:Blue">]</span><span style="color:Orange">]</span> 20:36, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
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	::Anyway, the article cannot possibly be characterized as ''G10. Pages that disparage, threaten, intimidate or harass their subject or some other entity, and serve no other purpose.''. It's absurd. Now stop shopping for forums. After the article is restored ''give reasons'' for your belief that various sources are unreliable.
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	:::Did you just accuse me of forum shopping, AFTER you've been busy posting to everyone and their dog's talk page about this ? Really? Replying to YOUR attempts at forum shopping is not forum shopping.<span style="color:Blue">]</span><span style="color:Orange">]</span> 20:58, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
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	::::"Inviting everyone and their dog" isn't forum shopping (or even canvassing, which I think is what you might have meant) -- it's getting as many points of view as possible. I invited everyone who posted to the AfD (without regard to whether they had supported ''delete'' or supported ''keep'') plus recent editors of the article, plus its original creator, to participate at ] on the question of source reliability. Now that it's been, improperly, deleted as G10 I'm asking that it be restored ''so the discussion, at the original Talk forum, can continue.'' You, on the other hand, are advocating that the deletion stand (otherwise what are you doing here?) -- in other words, if you can keep it deleted, you won't have to face actual discussion in the original forum, the Talk page.<p>To summarize, I'm here to ask that the original discussion, now aborted, can continue, while you're here to ask that the original discussion remain aborted, since that leads to the outcome you want -- deletion. That's what you might call preemptive forum shopping. <p>Anyway, the only question before us here is whether the article qualified as G10. Blade? (I don't know what the last version looked like, but if there's any question be sure to examine the version I linked earlier, which certainly isn't G10) <p>] (]) 21:49, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
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	:::::Objecting to your false characterization of discussion, that's what I'm doing here. Look, I agree that the page shouldn't have been speedy deleted this time around, since the AfD was ongoing. I am not here to "ask" anything - where did I "ask" for anything? You're the one doing all the asking. You're attributing things to me which just aren't true. And you've accused me of forum shopping without any basis or reason.<span style="color:Blue">]</span><span style="color:Orange">]</span> 21:56, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
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	::::::In all our interactions it's the same thing -- you reply to things people didn't say. What I said was
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	So, Blade, since my friend here and I seem to be in violent agreement, can you confirm no G10, and then restore? (I just noticed this , which implies some hot evidence compelling deletion was on the article's Talk, so better be sure to check that -- though I still think we're surrounded by people who don't understand G10. When I contacted you I thought this would be a straightforward restoral -- sorry. Um, this seems to be the "evidence' referred to -- what BS.)
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	:Indeed I will, and if you need me to do anything else let me know. Seems pretty straightforward to me. ] (]) 23:11, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
	::I have declined a further G10 nomination, and reopened the AfD which was closed after Merovingian's G10 deletion. ] (]) 23:40, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
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			; not sure if this is worthy of a thread to ], if only for more eyes. Thoughts? <b>] ]</b> 18:31, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
			:It looks like it's under control enough for now, but definitely going to keep an eye on it too. If it gets much bigger or more persistent I'd start something. You sometimes wonder... ] (]) 19:08, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
	This article is the gift that keeps on giving. I forget which is the right process -- revdel or oversight -- but the very person who was requesting G10 posted the real-life name of the person involved, plus a link to his work webpage. Can you swiftly revdel/oversight the material added here ? ] (]) 23:41, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
	:Sigh, that's not a "link to his work webpage" that's a link to one of these crappy sources from the article. Seriously, if you have no idea of what you're talking about, why get into an argument? <span style="color:Blue">]</span><span style="color:Orange">]</span> 23:44, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
	::::The post providing the link said it was to the individual's work webpage. I took him at his word. ] (]) 04:03, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
	:(edit conflict) And I got to say, it's... "ironic", that here you're attacking the editor who G10 nommed it for "linking to his photo", yet this is one of the <u>very sources you're trying to CRAM into this article</u>. BLP, BLP and one more time, BLP.<span style="color:Blue">]</span><span style="color:Orange">]</span> 23:49, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
	::Rev-deleted. Posting this name and picture are absolutely contrary to ]. ] (]) 23:47, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
	:::Dude. This is one of the "sources" that EEng and others are trying to add to this article! If putting it on the talk page (in order to illustrate BLP problems) is contrary to BLP, then sure as hell putting it IN THE ARTICLE is contrary to BLP.<span style="color:Blue">]</span><span style="color:Orange">]</span> 23:49, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
	::::You're mixed up as (it can now be said with confidence) usual. I haven't added any sources to the article, merely copyedited it, and asked for discussion on which sources are reliable. I don't know what's in them in detail, so I'm not surprised to hear one of them is the same as the one being revdel-ed here. You're turning the fact that I didn't realize that two sources are the same into some kind of demonstration of hypocrisy. Please discuss this on the article's Talk and leave poor Blade be. ] (]) 00:21, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
	:::::Nope, not mixed up . You were (re) adding this source to the article, but somehow have a problem with a link to it being placed on the talk page. I don't know if it's hypocrisy, but it's something.<span style="color:Blue">]</span><span style="color:Orange">]</span> 00:50, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
	::::::It is in the nature of mixed-up people to not realize it -- see ]. Any experienced editor looking at the link you provided understands what I was doing. Please take this to the article's Talk, where I've set up a subsection for each source so as to group together various editors' opinions on that source. Blade, I'm sorry I got you involved -- thought it would be a straightforward restore. ] (]) 03:58, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
	:::::::''It is in the nature of mixed-up people to not realize it -- see ]'' - is this like when you compared me to Hitler and then accused ME of violating Godwin's Law? You might want to pause once in awhile and reflect on whether the advice you're so ready to dish out to others just might not apply to yourself.<span style="color:Blue">]</span><span style="color:Orange">]</span> 04:14, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
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	Can't I even get up to go to the bathroom without a renewal of this mischegas?
	<p>No, what I said (long ago) was that Hitler was a striking illustration of how dangerous autodidacts can be; then I said "but I rush to mention, as well, Godwin's Law" (or something like that); that is, by pointing self-consciously to the tendency for nasty comparisons to be invoked, I was explicitly disavowing the idea that I might be making such a comparison in this case (beyond the point about autodidacts). I've already explained this to you at least once and you still don't get it?<p>As for "accusing of violating Godwin's Law" -- Crikey, where to begin? Godwin's "Law" states that all discussions sooner or later degenerate into Nazi namecalling. Accusing you of "violating Godwin's Law" would mean,... um,... saying something to you along the lines of, "Hey, you're violating the rule that says sooner or later you have to call someone a Nazi! Get with the program, will you? You can start by calling me Hermann Goering!" What an idiotic concept.<p>As to your suggestion that I unknowingly suffer from Dunning-Kruger: I take substantial reassurance from the low incidence of multiple editors simultaneously asking me to please put a sock in it. That mode of reassurance not being available to you, I assume you've found some interpretation of events which salves your ego during those hard times.<p>Now for the nth time, I don't enjoy watching you make a fool of yourself -- well, maybe just a bit, but still it's not a very productive use of my time -- so will you please stop embarrassing yourself in these hopeless attempts to one-up me, and get over to ] with some substantive comments on source reliability.
	<p>Blade, always good to see you. Your work on Genie has been FA-ntastic. ] (]) 04:57, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
	:Now I remember why I ended the conversation with you last time. Given enough time your comments degenerate into incomprehensible babble. So once again, I'm done talking to you.<span style="color:Blue">]</span><span style="color:Orange">]</span> 05:20, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
	::I will have a good, thorough look at this tomorrow when I get home from work; should be about 12 hours from now. I'm not ignoring this, I just wasn't in the right frame of mind to deal with it tonight (nothing really to do with Misplaced Pages). Oh, and if you want incomprehensible babble, go to the article EEng references above; I rather think EEng is more comprehensible than Genie or Chelsea. ] (]) 05:27, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
	:::Blade, I hope you didn't think there was any implied rebuke on my part for "ignoring this." But if you are so foolhardy as to venture in... remember, this is my copyedited version of the page -- the current one is a stub which Marek keeps substituting. I want to be clear that I know nothing of the sources -- all I did was copyedit -- but it was the venerable John Vandenberg that largely built the article, and naturally I trust him. ] (]) 12:37, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
	::::No, nothing of the sort taken. All right, I've looked at everything here and I'm really not seeing anything requiring admin tools. There's no BLP violation that I'm picking up on, and I'm not familiar enough with the subject to say anything about weight and sources. John Vandenberg seems like the person who Volunteer Marek should be after, so if you have a problem go there; EEng pretty much looks like just a copyeditor on the article. ] (]) 17:06, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
	:::::Belated thanks. ] (]) 03:11, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
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	Hi Blade. For background please see the section on your talk: ''Maurice07 evading AE topic ban on Greek-related topics through IP'' where Maurice was evading his Greek topics ban through {{user| 188.3.111.74}}. Fast forward to today: {{userlinks|Maurice07}} of ], clearly a Greek topic, an obvious breach of his ban on Greek topics and specifically on onomatology. Also see his edit here about the name of the Greek monastery at RM: But this is only the tip of the iceberg. Guess who botched the move of the monastery article in the first place. You guessed it: {{user|188.3.37.83}}. A clear sock of IP188.3.111.74 from above and for which Maurice got a one-month block. Just in case anyone had any doubts, at talk Soumela monastery about the move supplying two of the four sources Maurice07 gave to Anthony. I will not mention his insults and removing of referenced information from Armenian topics and calling referenced edits from there "vandalic". Please see also DQ's talk for additional problems under AA2. Thank you for your time. Take care. ]&nbsp;<small><sup style="position:relative">]<span style="position:relative;bottom:-2.0ex;left:-5.2ex;*left:-5.5ex">]</span></sup></small> 00:09, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
	:I'll have a look. ] (]) 02:06, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
	::Thank you Blade. ]&nbsp;<small><sup style="position:relative">]<span style="position:relative;bottom:-2.0ex;left:-5.2ex;*left:-5.5ex">]</span></sup></small> 02:11, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
	:::I'm going to let DeltaQuad make the ultimate determination here, as he's the CU and can run a check if he so desires, but that sure looks like Maurice07 to me. I'll tell him as much. ] (]) 02:44, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
	::::Thank you Blade. But apart from the socking, isn't his involvement in the move request for the Greek monastery a violation of his editing ban on Greek-Turkish relations, per ? ]&nbsp;<small><sup style="position:relative">]<span style="position:relative;bottom:-2.0ex;left:-5.2ex;*left:-5.5ex">]</span></sup></small> 02:54, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
	:::::This is an interesting gray area... its connection to Greek-Turkish relations is historical more than anything else, so it's a bit tenuous. I personally think yes, it is, but I'd like a 3rd opinion on that. I recently had a rough time at AE for a similarly hazy case, and although it worked out in my favor it's made me a little wary. ] (]) 02:59, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
	::::::If you need a third opinion, there is no problem. Thank you again Blade for taking the time. All the best. ]&nbsp;<small><sup style="position:relative">]<span style="position:relative;bottom:-2.0ex;left:-5.2ex;*left:-5.5ex">]</span></sup></small> 03:04, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
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	::::::::I'm sick of you Dr.K's and Athenean's personal attacks against me. I strongly reject this baseless and unsubstantiated claims. To see this, do not need to be a scholar,enough to look at his contributions. So far, I have not done any editing on Sumela Monastery.. I know, I'm greek topic banned and have explained it talk page of Anthony Appleyard . If you pay attention, I sent a request to talk page of administrator. Here, there is not a violation of the ban! In addition,it does not change the fact that user Athenan's illegal and destructive edit. . Two greek user can not be neutral in AA2 to me. I trust admins Blade and DeltaQuad about about it. -- ] (]) 09:28, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
	*Blade, this user is topic-banned from Greek-Turkish relations ''broadly interpreted''. This wording is already written on . Look at the ] and the personal attacks he is bringing forward for a clearly Turkish-Greek-related onomatological dispute. He got banned at AE from Greek onomatological disputes specifically because it was demonstrated there that he is hardwired trying to advance the Turkish version of names even when not warranted by COMMONNAME. He wreaked onomatological havoc on ], ], ] and other articles, by himself and through his sockpuppets, and now he is doing the same with ]. Look at his vehement effort and personal attacks for a bunch of diacritics. If the expression ''broadly construed'', in his Greek-Turkish relations ban, is to mean anything he should be blocked for violating it on the monastery issue. As we speak and despite acknowledging that he is topic banned from this issue he is raising a of Soumela while his sock IPs are sitting in the gallery cheering. He feels empowered because he hasn't been blocked yet and he is making a mockery of his AE sanctions. I didn't want to pressure you yesterday given your choice not to act on it but I had to intervene now that Maurice07 feels empowered enough for personal attacks and is not stopping his involvement with the Soumela onomatological dispute despite acknowledging that he is banned from it: {{xt|I know, I'm greek topic banned and have explained it talk page of Anthony Appleyard . If you pay attention, I sent a request to talk page of administrator.}}. He has to be made to understand that if he is {{xt|topic banned}} as he acknowledges he is not supposed to get involved with it. ''Broadly interpreted'' is just the icing on the cake just in case anyone had any qualms about blocking. Thank you for your consideration. Best regards. ]&nbsp;<small><sup style="position:relative">]<span style="position:relative;bottom:-2.0ex;left:-5.2ex;*left:-5.5ex">]</span></sup></small> 13:27, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
	::Convincing enough for me; maybe it's the coffee I had this morning, but this looks very clear-cut to me. Accordingly dealt with. ] (]) 16:31, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
	:::Thank you very much Blade. I guess it was the coffee for me too, especially after I saw the renewed attacks in the morning. :) It just brought it together for me. Take care. ]&nbsp;<small><sup style="position:relative">]<span style="position:relative;bottom:-2.0ex;left:-5.2ex;*left:-5.5ex">]</span></sup></small> 16:43, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
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	:::Hi Blade. He is evading his block with an IP geolocating to the same building as the other two. He also uses the same bad grammar as the master. The IPsock has also been blocked before for removing names from Greek and Armenian topics. He today as he did on . ]&nbsp;<small><sup style="position:relative">]<span style="position:relative;bottom:-2.0ex;left:-5.2ex;*left:-5.5ex">]</span></sup></small> 14:41, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
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	::::Looks like him to me all right; block extended. If DeltaQuad wants to do something else, he can go ahead. ] (]) 21:21, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
	:::::Thank you Blade. I was thinking of opening a formal SPI but you gave me a bit more time to organise the evidence. I'll inform DQ just in case he can spare me the effort of a formal investigation. Best regards and thanks again. ]&nbsp;<small><sup style="position:relative">]<span style="position:relative;bottom:-2.0ex;left:-5.2ex;*left:-5.5ex">]</span></sup></small> 22:51, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
	::::::Δρ.Κ. I suggest you do open an SPI report, just so that this is recorded in a central location and there is an easy to get to record of the IPs later if they are needed. Regards, ''']''' (] • ] • ]) 01:40, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
	:::::::Thank you very much Callanecc for your kind advice. You know, I agree completely with you. There is no better place than a central SPI location. Except for one thing. I have had it up to here with writing about this guy. I am just tired of this case. I need time to recover from that. :) Take care. ]&nbsp;<small><sup style="position:relative">]<span style="position:relative;bottom:-2.0ex;left:-5.2ex;*left:-5.5ex">]</span></sup></small> 01:47, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
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	Please see this report at AE, which asks for sanctions of Maurice07 under ARBAA2. Since you've recently issued a one-month AE block of Maurice07, it is unclear that anything more needs to be done. So far he is topic-banned from Greek-Turkish relations under ARBMAC but is not restricted yet under ARBAA2. Unless you want to issue more sanctions, you might consider closing the AE report and logging your recent block in whichever case you think appropriate. Otherwise a different admin might close it just to keep the board tidy but may not be aware of your entire rationale. Thanks, ] (]) 03:23, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
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			Hi (first of all 10/10 username cool af) Just looking for some advice.. I have worked quite extensivley on the page ], another user had nominated it for deletion and I have tried to engage in discussion as I would really much rather do this and try and reach a consensus rather than see it removed entirley. I believed that the article was extremely sufficently sourced and despite having a larger number of sources several of which were part of wider publications with brief mentions of my topic, this was mitigated by several well known, referenced and impartial genealogical sources used on many many other pages .... anyway wont go into a spiel here as have done so already on the discussion.
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			My issue is I have had no engagment at all from this user who has shown no interest in stating specifics and discussing what could be changed !! I have tried to do this on the deletion discusison to no avail and radio silence as well as a message on the users talk page which they deleted.
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			I am not overly familiar with the deletion voting/consensues structure and could do with some advice please feel free to respond via here i'd really apprecciate it :)) really coming down to it I think looking at the bibliography there isn't a cause at all for deletion nomination in the first place (do see my info on the discussion - happy to go into specifics and answer any questions) I write academically in the field of early modern history outside of[REDACTED] !! Just want to know if an admin or whoever can intervene or have a look over, I don't know.
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			I don't share my personal Information in my user page, can lead to privacy breach ] (]) 22:45, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
	... for clearing out that summary. Would you mind getting the about that editor when you get a chance? <span style="font-family:'segoe ui','lucida grande';letter-spacing:2px;text-shadow:0 0 1px #999">&nbsp;]&nbsp;]</span> 04:54, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
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	Could you please take a look at Ip 87.232.1.48 latest edits after being unblocked. We had a long edit dispute before his 3 months block and now I have a feeling the IP is kind of Wikihounding me by following me around on Misplaced Pages. Doing edits on Jodi Arias film article ] and the AfD of that article and also on ] reverting my edit and on ]s talk page. All articles that I have edit recently, and all of those edits from the IP has been made today. I am assuming good faith but I feel it is better for both of us to move on but for that to happen the IP can not follow my edits and edit the exact same articles so obvious. if you got the time please check it out. Regards,--] (]) 02:42, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
	:Thank you for taking the time. I just want to be left alone from the IP and be productive. Thank you again!--] (]) 02:51, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
	::No problem, was pretty straightforward hounding to me. Let me know if it keeps going and I'll handle it. ] (]) 02:52, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
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	:::::The IP still doesnt get your point about hounding. Continued hounding unfortunatly today. All I am asking for is to be left alone for a while from the IP instead it seems the IP is more interested in wanting a reaction from me then actually edit on Misplaced Pages. All of the IPs latest edits has been reverted by different users. Regards,--] (]) 16:35, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
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	:Heh. I've been cutting out some of the unnecessary bytes of text the last few days, and if I can figure out how to better cite books in footnotes that'd take out about 15K at least. I'm also going to rework the lead a little bit more so people who only want the basic idea can get it. However, it's still not as large as the ] article, so it's not ''too'' huge just yet. ] (]) 02:14, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
	:...And it would seem I've figured it out. Funny, I did the same thing a couple weeks ago and it didn't work at ''all'', but glad it does now. ] (]) 02:33, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
	::I should also mention that once you get to ''zz'' , adding just one more use of that same cite could create a rift in the time-space-citation continuum, the consequences of which are predicted by Einstein's Theory of Wikitivity. ] (]) 03:33, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
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	Hi Blade. As a former contributor to ], you may wish to take a look at ]. If you do, please read it carefully in order not to miss the explicit objective. Comments on its talk page. Cheers, ] (]) 01:06, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
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			Hello, The Blade of the Northern Lights,
			To be honest, I'm surprised, after more than 18 years of editing, that this editor has been blocked. I think much of what they did was productive editing. They just drove other editors nuts by refusing to communicate when they had questions about their editing decisions. Does this mean that all of the IP accounts that are associated with their editing can be blocked for block evasion should they reappear? Although they used to do general editing of all types, these days they are easy to spot because all they do is categorize articles and categories.
	Hi Blade. I have concerns about your collapsing several nominations at WP:NFCR. First, the image ] does appear to be PD, and should be re-templated as such. Second, all the images in the collapsed section have templates on their file description pages that need to be removed if these nominations are being withdrawn. And third, the page is maintained by a bot. If the sections are not closed using the templates provided, the bot will never move them to the archive. Regards, -- ] (]) 18:34, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
	:I did that at the behest of Sfan00 IMG, I'm not familiar with the NFCR procedures. I'm not sure what the best way to fix that is, I'll look at the instructions and see what I'm supposed to do; if you know what you're doing, feel free to correct it if I haven't already. ] (]) 19:26, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
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			:Hi. First off I'm doing fine, and hope you are as well. This is a classic "indefinite doesn't mean infinite" situation, so if there's any openness to communication you (or any other admin) can unblock without consulting me. But going back to doing exactly what lead to the block, except with IPs, is straight up block evasion. I'm not the best with categories (as I learned in dramatic fashion when helping clean up the gigantic mess that was longevity articles), and I know that sometimes blindly reverting can create issues of its own, so discretion is advised. But I'd definitely ''like'' to get a response from DinosaursLoveExistence and get an unblock. ] (]) 23:54, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
	Greetings. Last year you banned one user (here is the report ) for sock puppetry and edit warring. I believe he has returned. The last edits in ] article are the same and the language (including the threat to always come back) are also the same used by this anonymous editor in the subject/headline. I don't know how to proceed. Any help would be welcome. Thanks.--] (]) 12:52, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
	:Looks pretty obvious to me; IP blocked for a while, and if there are further attempts I'll semiprotect the page. ] (]) 19:52, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
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	::Probably a good idea; I'll hit it for a few months, if it keeps going after that I'll upgrade it to indef. ] (]) 04:07, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
	:::Thanks to both of you. Sorry for my part in the edit warring!--] (]) 13:39, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
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JarlaxleArtemis

Hi, does your comment about JarlaxleArtemis which includes the words "He's not coming back anytime in the future ..." mean you have information that JarlaxleArtemis is not a current threat? I ask because JzG said the reason for the addition of Breitbart News to the spam blacklist was "... to control massive spamming and disruption by JarlaxleArtemis socks". Peter Gulutzan (talk) 16:47, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Yes, in 2018 he was still active but as of now we have good reason to think he won't be anytime in the near future. Still a good idea to have that on the blacklist though. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 17:28, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

I think "spamming" can be a reason to put on a spam blacklist but "good idea" is insufficient. Is WP:AN an appropriate forum to bring this to? Peter Gulutzan (talk) 17:57, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

It's not a reliable source, and it is used to spread disinformation (and also publishes personal attacks on Misplaced Pages editors by banned trolls). We're vastly better off without it. If it ever comes off the blacklist it will have to go into an edit filter. The blacklist is more efficient. Guy (help! - typo?) 15:50, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Update: Never mind my question about WP:AN, I've found that the most relevant prior discussion was mainly on a WP:ANI thread so I intend to take it there. Thanks for your clarification. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 20:17, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

No problem. I vaguely remembered it being discussed somewhere, I was looking for that. Glad you found it. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 20:19, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

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Bridgeport, Connecticut

Hi BotNL, are we seeing another block evasion by Lima16? They've also gone after Magnolia's edits as payback for being reverted. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 04:30, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Not sure. From reading Magnolia667's talkpage this account seems to be a bit more willing to take on feedback, but the edits were also less than helpful. I'll keep an eye on it. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 20:26, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Agreed about willingness to engage, which I also noticed. But the edit pattern, article choices and occasional language difficulties ring familiar. As well, they sometimes edit while signed out, as at University of Bridgeport, so those actions can be added for scrutiny, if that's the proper term. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 00:01, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

And as I recall, Lima16 initially pretended to accept feedback. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 00:02, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

Makes sense. If I see any edits similar to the ones this user has just claimed to disavow, it'll be an immediate block. I'm carefully watching now. Thanks for letting me know about this. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 01:47, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. I'm inclined to view edits by new users that don't improve the article as block evasion. There was recently a disagreement about adding a nondescript photo of the aforementioned ferry, and now this non sequitur was added to the intro. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 18:53, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

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I've seen plenty of usernames longer than that given a pass. Someone who's wrong on the internet (talk) 03:16, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

Japanese

Hello Blade! On your userpage you say that you can help out with transliterations of Japanese. Would you mind helping me out with the Japanese on List of Pokemon characters? Some of the Romaji on the page is simply just what appears to be the translation of the Japanese name rather than the transliteration of the Katakana. ― Blaze Wolf_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 20:07, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

I'll take a look through when I get a chance, should be in the next day or so. My Japanese is rusty enough that it's probably a tetanus hazard, but I can still handle katakana reasonably well. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 21:29, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Vandals: Dmhw, Ylogm

Hi, I noticed that recently User:Dmhw and User:Freeman6000 have vandalized and blanked several pages regarding the Ming dynasty of China. They have been warned numerous times to stop blanking and removing content from pages, yet they continue to do so. Could you please stop or block them since they are clearly not listening to other users?

Also, their editing habits appear similar to User:Ylogm. For example, Ylogm and Dmhw have similar usernames (string of random letters). They also edit similar articles within a close time interval that few other users edit such as , , , , , , , , any many other articles.

These similar editing habits suggest that Ylogm, Dmhw are the same user. After Ylogm was blocked on March 3, 2023, the account Dmhw was created on March 8 to evade the block . Could the vandal Dmhw please be investigated and blocked?

Thank you very much. EchoAyatoZhao53 (talk) 00:57, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

So are these people the same person? Le Sisi,

Huang Arataki Lan Yu, Duan Zuolin, Caishikou,.. etc Freeman6000 (talk) 01:05, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Don't interrupt: that's rude. Drmies (talk) 01:06, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

• Hey--I can't do all the legwork right now, but I ran a few checks. User:Dmhw is the same as User:Trinh N Hien and User:Freeman6000 and User:CaptainPhilly--and, after I checked a few of them, Ylogm. Blade, I gotta run, but please drop blocks on those accounts and don't be afraid to make them CU blocks. They are all identical. There's also significant logged-out editing, so maybe writing up an SPI and asking a CU for a couple more rangeblocks is appropriate. Sorry I can't do it right now. Drmies (talk) 01:06, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
  • Added to the current SPI case and requested CU. I didn't provide any additional information, yet referenced this thread. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 01:15, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
    • I put all the IPs from one range together but it was way too big for a range block. There's an overlap with Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Smagzine but that's a coincidence, I think. Drmies (talk) 01:34, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
      • Based on contributions alone I'd agree, it appears to just be a coincidence. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 01:37, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Dmhw / Ylogm is back again under the new account User:Victor Huang Ming, blanking contents from the same pages: , , . Could this account be stopped as well? Thank you. EchoAyatoZhao53 (talk) 04:41, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

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Another possible Bridgeport sock

Hi, BotNL, given edit history, and that they're adding content we've seen before with the same sources, I suspect Miston Kun (talk · contribs) is Lima16 (talk · contribs). Your thoughts welcome. Thanks and have a good weekend, 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 02:24, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

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Recently edited admin

Hi! Just thought I'd ask if you, as an admin, consider AroDude's behaviour blockable. They're a new editor who's mostly concerned with creating userboxes and making friends rather than building the encyclopedia in my opinion. In the past day they've asked another editor for their age (turned out to be a minor), lied about their age (see same thread, not necessarily against policy AFAIK but just dodgy), and submitted a new editor's sandbox to AfC without talking to them about it beforehand. With still no edits to mainspace or article drafts of their own in their 139 edits so far, considering all the hassle they're causing, I thought I'd ask you if blocking them temporarily makes sense. I don't think ANI, where I'd usually take these issues, is suitable for a new editor like them so I'm asking you as an admin that's recently active. — Ixtal ⁂ Non nobis solum. 16:05, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi, sorry I missed this yesterday. I see someone has warned AroDude already, and I think that's sufficient for now; if anything else happens, let me know and I won't hesitate to block. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 12:41, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

They were eventually blocked for socking, weirdly enough both new users they had interacted with are socks of the same master. The wiki never fails to surprise. — Ixtal ⁂ Non nobis solum. 13:07, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, there are some things I just don't get. Good lord. Let me know if you see suspicious new accounts, I'll take care of it. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 13:20, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

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Deletion review for Mohsin Hani

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Mohsin Hani. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Alpha3031 (t • c) 12:31, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Deletion of 2023 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Pool B

I do disagree with a deletion of the article "2023 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Pool B" that has sat for a week at two keeps and two deletes and one other editor confused at to why this article should be deleted (without formally saying keep. It finally got another "delete but merge" today after 7 days of nothing and you deleted it? That's not enough consensus in my book to delete an article. This could also be looked at as 3 keeps, 1 merge, and 2 deletes. I wont challenge the full deletion, though I'm disappointed, but I require the contents be put in a sandbox page of mine so I can merge the contents into the main article. Really this should have at the very least been a redirect instead of delete because many other articles just like this exist that it is likely a search term for our readers. Thank you. Fyunck(click) (talk) 01:45, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

I can restore the contents to your sandbox, give me one moment. I wouldn't treat this as a "delete it forever and salt" situation, to be sure, so if a redirect makes sense (this isn't my strongest topic area) I certainly don't object. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 01:51, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

Content is now at User:Fyunck(click)/2023 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Pool B. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 01:53, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. It's probably 50/50 on the redirect. My only concern would be that I will now be merging the contents of the article into the main article at 2023 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone and the actual wikipedians that created the contents will get no credit for their writing. I would just plop it in as if it were my own creation. With a redirect at least the original creators would still be listed and I can do a proper merge with links back to the redirect page. Fyunck(click) (talk) 02:05, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

If you think that would be the best move, I can restore the history at the redirect. Let me know, that would only take a couple clicks to sort out (I'm on EST, so if I drop off for several hours here I'm not ignoring you). The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 02:51, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

I went ahead and merged the contents with the summary saying it was from the deleted article. If it gets redirected I can put the merge info on the redirect talk page and the summary will turn to a blue link rather than a red link. If not it will be a red link that someone can ask to see the contents from an administrator. I'm not sure what's best as my area of expertise is tennis and yours is more on the MOS handling of editor history. Personally I think I redirect to "2023 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone" with a keeping of history is best. Thanks for the help. Fyunck(click) (talk) 02:58, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

You had nearly an entire month to preemptively copy the content to your sandbox while this AFD was running. You “suddenly” being confronted with the content disappeared is mostly only you. Besides how much effort is it really to recreate this BJK Cup results tables somewhere else?? Your frustrated comments here directed at the deleting admin are seriously misplaced. As for the suggestion for a redirect, I seriously doubt that anyone is ever going to type the full “2023 Billie Jean King Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Pool B” in the search box and cannot see this being a valid option. Interested reader are more likely going to go the edition’s main article and then navigate down from there, rather going up from the lowest level. So I think a history merge would be the right course of action here.Tvx1 13:14, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

I can do a histmerge as well, this would be a fairly simple one. This isn't really my topic area (I'm a baseball guy first and foremost) so I have no strong feelings. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 14:46, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

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Likely sockpuppet of Jgwikid

Hello, User:Track1News (who appears to be a sockpuppet of User:Jgwikid; see previous discussion on your talk page and an SPI case) has a pattern of feeling like they "own" pages, undoing substantial good edits (other users have also complained) and attacking editors. I'm posting here because you have taken action in the past and also to ask what is the official way of notifying admins of suspected sockpuppets in future when the case has been archived? Thanks. 103.108.229.73 (talk) 23:42, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Dear, you have some kind of mania. You enter unsourced or false information (Bisset here, her 3 tour races and results are not mentioned in the ref. given, or you write nonsense about postponement of nonexistent championships). Some of your edits are in fact "substantial bad edits". You removed info about national titles for Bisset while for all athletes we do mention them in the second paragraph of the lede. You did trim notable info from lede for Ingebrigtsen - he has rather bigger intro as he has a lot of notable achievements, he is not your Catriona Bisset, he is World No. 1.

Both users that you mentioned eventually did thank me because one is doing nonsense for Italian athletes (no competition table updates, Italian style formatting in English Misplaced Pages, tragic grammar), while second was removing valid national records from records lists, leaving wrong data and not supplying ref.

Sorry for one small Ingebrigtsen revert - I thought his current coach is not the ref. but there is this info. So I am sorry. (I know his brother is coaching him now but we need source for everything).

So please, try to improve your "substantial good edits" and do not trim leads of best world athletes with a lot of titles and achievements. Track1News (talk) 00:50, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi User:Track1News, could you please point me to the guidelines for what should be included in sports ledes? If you're adhering to community standards it would be useful to know. If it's only in your head, perhaps we should find a place to discuss it for future reference. I've been trying to make ledes readable (it is meant to be a summary, not an exhaustive list of all achievements), and in the case of Ingebrigtsen's article, I didn't remove achievements but shifted them to other places in the article (for instance, the Kipchoge pacing appeared only in the lede but not the main article). 103.108.229.73 (talk) 01:07, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello. Please check Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce by User:Journalist. This is a super star though, 5 world titles - but all important achievements are mentioned in the intro.

There are no guidelines as far as I know but I am updating more than 600 athletes and I'm trying to be consistent for all.

For average runner we mention in the first paragraph: all world and area medals + all world and area records. This is notable enough. (Areas: Europe, North America (NACAC), South America, Asia and Oceania. Oceania is rather small area and not so notable but areas are as recognized by World Athletics.)

For second paragraph we mention world and area U20 and U18 medals, national records and national titles (only titles, not silvers or bronzes).

edit: You can check how it looks like for current combined events stars Anna Hall and Adrianna Sułek. For comparison two-time Olympic champions and world champions: Faith Kipyegon or Shaunae Miller-Uibo.

Then there are some world best athletes who made notable (first in history or while the youngest in history) doubles or triples like Sifan Hassan, Laura Muir, Femke Bol or Jakob Ingebrigtsen - info about these achievements is also notable enough for first or second paragraph.

BTW. You are more than welcome to edit Ingebrigtsen as he has very poor article - it was not updated and written on time by people and now is rather empty. I limited myself just to good personal bests table, some most important info in the body of the article and photos. His intro probably could be condensed a little but carefully as he is No. 1 with many notable doubles and "firsts".

And sorry for this small Ingebrigtsen revert - I will add later info about his current coach or you will do it. Track1News (talk) 11:21, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

edit: And as you are from Australia, please update also Jessica Hull (she had very poor article), Ollie Hoare and others..., not only Bisset ;) because you are the first to wise up and not so first to do real, hard job of constant updates.

I'm a bit strapped for time right now, so I can't take a deep dive. If you think this is a sock account, start an investigation at sockpuppet investigations. In the meantime, for any content disputes take it to the talkpage. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 14:01, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi BotNL, I've taken a look at this user's contributions, and at a few other factors, and am persuaded that it is very likely to be a sock of Jgwikid - I've blocked, and tagged as suspected. Best Girth Summit _(blether) 12:33, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. Yeah, I would normally have been happy to take care of this myself, but RL last week was ridiculous for me. Hoping that it calms down in the next couple days. Much obliged for the assist! The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 18:01, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Block evasion by 2001:268:9800::/40

Hi! A couple of days ago you blocked 2001:268:9800::/40 for persistently adding unsourced content, after my report on WP:ANI. I notice that two new IPs have appeared, making very much the same edits to the same articles as the blocked IP:

133.32.22.193 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

39.110.250.214 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Neither one has made a huge number of edits yet, but all their edits are very similar to those of the blocked IP. This is particularly evident on Matsuzaka Generation. I suspect the blocked editor is evading the block. CodeTalker (talk) 17:47, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

I blocked the IP that most recently edited and rolled back what I could, let me know if more show up. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 20:50, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! CodeTalker (talk) 23:48, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi, sorry to bother you again, but this persistent editor seems to have reappeared again, this time with a new account User:MasaoOhba1949. This account has repeated the same edits to Matsuzaka Generation and other articles that the blocked IP has edited. I wonder if some of these articles should be protected as well as blocking the socks. CodeTalker (talk) 17:11, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

No problem. User blocked, I semiprotected Matsusaka Generation; let me know what else I should hit and I will. If it continues after that, take it to requests for page protection and someone more experienced at this than me can take a look (page protection isn't my strongest suit, though I know enough that this needs it). The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 22:46, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

K. Annamalai

Hi! As I can see you have deleted the K_Annamalai article. The K._Annamalai article still exists. You deleted the ex-IPS officer's wikipage citing that he is a "non-notable person". This is absolutely preposterous and quite frankly malicious too. The current person (ex-MLA from 2001) at K._Annamali is the real insignificant personality, who is vastly unrecognized and with only 2 citations supporting the entire article. Applying your logic why isn't that article deleted too? On the other hand, the K. Annamalai(ex-IPS officer) is notable leader in the vibrant political gamut of India with numerous citaions to prove his prominence. Now you tell me, what the problem is with creating an article in his name. ChaitanyaJo (talk) 08:31, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Read the deletion discussion and you will understand. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 15:52, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

I have read the discussion again. However, you are still not explaining why K._Annamalai is not deleted. ChaitanyaJo (talk) 08:23, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

No one is stopping you from nominating it for deletion. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 01:28, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

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Interface deletion

Ok, I'll bite, what combination of permissions allowed you to do that? :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:34, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

I... don't know, honestly. Maybe because I'm also an oversighter, I'm not an intadmin. I just saw the note, it came up with the standard deletion page, and I hit delete. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 20:27, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) If you're referring to userspace JS/CSS pages, then any admin can actually delete those; only editing and undeleting require intadmin rights. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 19:20, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

An Official Investigation

I want to submit an official investigation into what happened today regarding the two articles Draft:Khaled Al Saif, Draft:Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City and either the result of the investigation is that I am guilty and I am banned from editing on Misplaced Pages, or that the editors who treated me disrespectfully apologize to me and take back the article and a clear and frank apology on my talk page.

What happened was the clear disregard of the editors for people's minds and the use of their absolute power and acting as if Misplaced Pages belonged to them after fulfilling the conditions for the articles and talking to the help section in Misplaced Pages, and in the end they agreed with me on the note of the two articles. The editors come here and their words and their dealings differ. After advising the user @DoubleGrazing to apply for a revision of the draft to become an article, he deletes the draft and recklessly thinks about it. Is this a trap or what? After adding all the sources they want, he says that this is a paid article. As for the second article, he did not find anything that says except that this article was written by me in a publicity way. Deleting it from the beginning of the post I will not be sad, but I am saddened by the lack of respect he found here. I don't care about the two articles as much as I care about a clear and frank apology.

Here the answer from the User and the advice from him. John.GGVV (talk) 19:38, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

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Request block of Benstone84th t 5

Good day! I would like to ask a favor to request the block of User talk:Benstone84th t 5 because they keep on vandalizing articles and when I reverted their edits he proceeded on vandalizing my own userpage. I hope you can help me on this matter. Thank you. The Man Without Fear 15:42, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Done. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 18:26, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

I'm grateful. I really appreciate you doing this. The Man Without Fear 20:28, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

You got it, no problem. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 22:38, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

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SPI Case that I opened on ChocChimpanzee5

Hi there, I opened a SPI case on ChocChimpanzee5 but I saw you blocked them for sockpuppetry, so thanks! Can you close that case so it is not in the SPI clerks way. Thanks! Seawolf35 (talk) 18:47, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/ChocChimpanzee5

You may want to disable their talkpage access. Thanks. 2601:601:51C:D94:F1C2:FA1D:6FD0:8DAF (talk) 18:58, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

Revdel

Thanks for doing that revdel. Please can you also revdel from the same person on a different ip from earlier? (Apologies if this is inappropriate to ask.) Best, A smart kitten_meow 15:55, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

(don’t worry - taken care of ) A smart kitten_meow 16:07, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

No problem, someone was a little quicker on the draw than me. Let me know if any more comes up and I'll take care of it. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 16:30, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

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Your block of 41.62.198.95

Hey, I ran across another IP they were using yesterday: 41.62.221.120 from the same range.   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 18:19, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Oh, and they are an LTA, by the way.

Blocked, thanks for the tip. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 18:31, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Oops,

forgot you had OS. Silly me. Doug Weller talk 16:54, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Balkanite sanction

Hey, while I don't have any issue with the 500/6month sanction, the subject area of "Serbian and Croatian topics" seems to be a bit off the mark given that their disruptive editing has purely focused on Bosniak identity, and to a significant degree in the context of immigrant enclaves outside of former Yugoslavia. Beyond being somewhat inadequate, the mix up could be seen as insulting by them. _signed, Rosguill 14:04, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, it's been a while since I've closed one of these. That's basically what I was going for, I but I worded it horribly, I managed to completely confuse myself with Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian. I'll fix it. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 14:08, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Wiki.NYC Pavilion for Open House New York (Oct 21–22) and Wikidata Day (Oct 29)

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Incredible work on Genie!

Hello Blade. I've never had a Misplaced Pages account before but I felt compelled to create one tonight just to give you congratulations on your work on Genie (feral child). On 4 June (same day Susan Curtiss first met her) of this year, a friend and I were having a chat about similarly abused children and he sent me the Misplaced Pages page on Genie. I read the entire thing within a couple hours. By the end, I was crying. I am not a very emotional person but this story reached out and touched me profoundly. I have never read such an impactful Misplaced Pages article in my life, and dare I say, it changed my life. The photograph of her face they used in all the newspapers at the time is still seared into my brain with a hot branding iron. What a haunting expression.

I've since purchased and read books about her and other isolated children, among other interesting sources I've found. I've read some of the previous topics in this Talk page and I've glanced over your thousands of edits over the past decade on Genie's article. I think it's safe to say that you've forgotten more about her story than I'll ever learn. I can't imagine the effect it's had on you. It's such a complex mixture of emotions her story evokes in me, but they are all very strong emotions. Anyway, I heavily related with everything you've had to say about her over the years and it makes me feel a lot better knowing that I'm not alone in this regard. Over 10 years after your work began on this article, and over 50 years after Genie was rescued from such unfathomable conditions, there are still people like me who are learning about her for the first time, and her article is the perfect place to start. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your devotion, commitment, and contributions to her article, and by extension, I feel, to her very legacy. MrXenon1993 (talk) 04:31, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! Yes, it was (and to an extent remains) quite an undertaking, and was some of the hardest research I've ever done, but I'm glad for all the time I put into it. For all that's there, some of the details that aren't are just as if not more horrific, and that's just from what's publicly available; goodness knows what the doctors and the research team found out while working with her. Knowing that more people can learn about her case from my work is very satisfying, and I'm glad you got so much out of it! The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 17:02, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Yes, some of the lesser-known details of abuse I've come across are absolutely horrifying. I can't imagine some of the stories Susan Curtiss had heard but elected not to share.

I have a couple of small edit suggestions (I would do them myself but I can't). First of all, your final edit on 6 September left the sentence "...since she her brain activity was so right-hemisphere dominant". The "she" should be removed.

Second of all, I tried to find this bit in the revision history of the English page but I failed. I didn't even know this existed until I checked the Spanish and French pages. There's an American indie rock band called Killjoy Confetti who released an album in 2006. One of the songs on this album is called Crooked Teeth, and the lyrics are about Genie. I think it would be a good inclusion to the Media category of the English page, and I'm kinda surprised I didn't see it there before. Maybe there's a reason for its exclusion, I'm not sure.

Thank you so much for your time and response! MrXenon1993 (talk) 17:24, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Good to know. I'm just about to fix the grammar issue, and when I have some more time I'll look into the song. Much appreciated! The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 17:54, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

I would like further explanation regarding my block

Found this highly offensive and unproffesional of you. I fought a lot of vandalists in Misplaced Pages and spent a lot of hours in monitoring. None of my edits are for a "game" purpose, I am editing also regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but I never did anything for a bad cause, tilted a vote, attacked or violated anything. I even got a barnstar for monitoring vandalism. Where did assuming good intentions gone? You are just gonna block anyone without even hearing all sides? dov (talk) 17:42, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

You began patrolling right after this, to get enough edits as quickly as possible. After reaching 500 edits you stopped. Rushing edits as quick as possible just to get a permission is gaming. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:03, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

I didn't stop, I just continued participating in discussions which I'm allowed to do even without any permissions. Again this is an assumption of bad faith, even though that my edits are not bad faith or "fake edits", I also didn't stop monitoring, I did become more invested in recent events but not because of reaching anything, I also barely used my permission on anything. The timing of Nableezy's allegations were after me confronting him of being not respectful towards other users in talk pages, this on the other hand is bad faith and not communal behavior. I have contributed to the Wikimedia project in general for years, through Wikicommons, Wikidata and through other languages of Misplaced Pages, and I take an assumption like this of bad faith in a really personal manner. Never mistreated anybody and never talked to anybody agressively or badly.

I ask for the ban to be cancelled, if you see I abuse by any means the "granted permissions" sure, take them away. Good intention is not there for fun, it's there for better community. Blocking a person and saying their edits are fake or rushed to go fight over some conflict is not assuming good intentions. dov (talk) 18:18, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

@דוב the last person who tried this (the thread is still on ANI),got blocked while I was trying to remove ecp, so consider yourself lucky. Doug Weller talk 18:41, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

User:Cullen328 blocked you. I presume you are talking about your topic ban. Doug Weller talk 18:46, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Nov 15: WikiWednesday Salon + Wikimedia NYC Executive Director job

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Wed Dec 6: Hacking Night + job listing

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Editor experience invitation

Hi The Blade of the Northern Lights :) I'm looking for people to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 10:22, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Sign me up! I'm happy to join in, should be able to write out my answers later today. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 14:55, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

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Mynameisraw01

Hi, thanks for blocking this user. Don't know if you noticed, but I posted a sock warning on their talk page, because I think Mejaykaveeru and Veerurawactor are socks (or meat) of the same. I'm not suggesting they need to be blocked yet (unless you so decide, of course, in which case you'll get no objections from me!), but if they re-activate after this block, then possibly yes. I'll keep an eye on them. Cheers, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:53, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Thu Jan 4: Hacking Night + Misplaced Pages Day soon

January 4: Hacking Night @ Prime Produce
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Mention

Hi, I'm on mobile & find it a pain. Just FYI, I have quoted you at WP:RSN - can't get the link to work but it's your "gratuitous belligerence" remark about Banks Irk at an AfD. - Sitush (talk) 15:13, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

I'll copy it over there. I can see this is another India dispute (I've actually just been in India for the last 3 weeks, quite a place), it never does end. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 15:35, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

Linga Balija

Thank you for protecting this page. I tried to bring attention to it a few times but never made progress and the people who were handling it before have moved on to other things. Reconrabbit 05:41, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Dear sir or madam

I'm not reading all of that, but I'm happy for you or sorry it happened.

Dear sir or madam: Enclosed please to find the receipt for the replacement of one damaged keyboard in need of repair post haste due to spilled hot liquid beverage in response to your whimsey. Yours, Viriditas (talk) 19:36, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Heh. Responsibility accepted, you can expect a reimbursement post haste. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 19:40, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

User:SaifWindsorUniversity

I think your block of this new user is in error. There is a Dr. Merdad Saif at University of Windsor . Having a username like this isn't a violation of WP:UPOL. In fact, this very situation is called out in WP:ISU. I recommend removing the block. Respectfully, --Hammersoft (talk) 23:46, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, I definitely didn't read that right. I'll unblock, thanks for the corrective. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 00:27, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

"Gunahon Ka Devta(1990 film)" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Tony

I'd completely forgotten that Tony had nominated you for adminship, too. Happy to have been reminded that both of us have him in common! Acalamari 10:58, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Here's to that! What a great editor and admin, Tony is already sorely missed. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 16:05, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

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Thu Feb 8 NYC Hacking Night + Feb 21 WikiWednesday

February 8: Hacking Night @ Prime Produce
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AE

Would you mind re-opening the GM AE section. I have half-formed some additional thoughts that I hope to present to the group within the next half-day. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 19:52, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Done. I'm not really sure what more there is to say, but nothing wrong with getting more insight. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 20:18, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Tue March 5: Wiki Gala NYC

March 5: Wiki Gala @ Prime Produce

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A barnstar for you!

		The Admin's Barnstar
		For dealing with the user personally attacking me and other users. I appreciate it. JeffSpaceman (talk) 15:23, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! I saw your AN notice, right after I took care of TPA I had to deal with a short RL situation so someone archived it before I could note it there. Let me know if this guy crops up again. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 15:28, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

I can't promise that I'll be able to let you know if I see him again. I didn't really look into his behavioral patterns, though I might need to do so for if I do stumble upon him again... JeffSpaceman (talk) 16:15, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

WikiNYC: 3/14 Hacking Night + 3/16 Queens Name Explorer

March 14: Hacking Night @ Prime Produce
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March 16: Queens Name Explorer @ QPL Tech Lab
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Follow up on deleted draft

Hello, I was hoping you could let me know what I did wrong with my draft for REDCOM's entry. I had disclosed my relationship with REDCOM on my page and was attempting to make it as unbiased as possible. The intention was just to create an entry for the company and nothing more. Would you be willing to explain what I did wrong or how I can go about getting REDCOM an entry? Because I thought I was taking all the necessary steps to post the entry as a paid editor.

Thanks. RedcomEthan (talk) 18:59, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Blocked

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WikiWednesday (April 10) and City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon (April 11)

April 10: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce
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Thu April 25: WikiNYC Hacking Night

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May 8: WikiWednesday Salon with new Executive Director

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Attempts to sneak mentions of CC into Misplaced Pages

FYI; not sure if this is worthy of a thread to WP:ANI, if only for more eyes. Thoughts? OhNoitsJamie 18:31, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

It looks like it's under control enough for now, but definitely going to keep an eye on it too. If it gets much bigger or more persistent I'd start something. You sometimes wonder... The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 19:08, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

June 2: Hacking Sunday (+preview of June 8 Wiknic)

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Sat June 8: Governors Island Wiknic

June 8: Wiknic @ Governors Island

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June 26: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

June 26: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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Fri July 19: Wikicurious in NYC, Editing Misplaced Pages for Beginners

July 19: Wikicurious: Editing Misplaced Pages for Beginners @ Civic Hall

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for the inaugural event of the beginner-focused Wikicurious series at Civic Hall! All are welcome, and newcomers and aspiring editors are especially encouraged to attend. Registration via Eventbrite is required for building entry, and is also encouraged on the event page on Meta. The Wikicurious series at Civic Hall is supported by Craig Newmark Philanthropies. Wikimedia NYC is an official affiliate and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. Meeting info: Date: Friday, July 19, 2024 Time: 3:00–8:00 p.m. Location: Civic Hall 124 East 14th Street, Floor , New York, NY Equipment: Please bring your own computer. We are not yet able to provide loaner laptops. Eventbrite RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wikicurious-editing-wikipedia-for-beginners-tickets-929793225567 RSVP is necessary for building entry

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Advice !!

Hi (first of all 10/10 username cool af) Just looking for some advice.. I have worked quite extensivley on the page De'Anyers family, another user had nominated it for deletion and I have tried to engage in discussion as I would really much rather do this and try and reach a consensus rather than see it removed entirley. I believed that the article was extremely sufficently sourced and despite having a larger number of sources several of which were part of wider publications with brief mentions of my topic, this was mitigated by several well known, referenced and impartial genealogical sources used on many many other pages .... anyway wont go into a spiel here as have done so already on the discussion.

My issue is I have had no engagment at all from this user who has shown no interest in stating specifics and discussing what could be changed !! I have tried to do this on the deletion discusison to no avail and radio silence as well as a message on the users talk page which they deleted.

I am not overly familiar with the deletion voting/consensues structure and could do with some advice please feel free to respond via here i'd really apprecciate it :)) really coming down to it I think looking at the bibliography there isn't a cause at all for deletion nomination in the first place (do see my info on the discussion - happy to go into specifics and answer any questions) I write academically in the field of early modern history outside of wikipedia !! Just want to know if an admin or whoever can intervene or have a look over, I don't know.

Thanks for reading all best, .. Stark :)) Starktoncollosal (talk) 18:54, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Followed Rules

I don't share my personal Information in my user page, can lead to privacy breach Raayaan9911 (talk) 22:45, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Sat August 24: Roosevelt Island Wiknic

August 24: Wiknic @ Roosevelt Island

You are invited to the picnic anyone can edit on Roosevelt Island, at Southpoint Park. Following up on this month's Wikimania in Poland, this Wiknic will have as guest of honor User:DerHexer, the 2024 Wikimedia Laureate of the Year, marking his triumphant North American tour! Bring a picnic blanket and some potluck, as well as some sunscreen! We'll also provide a little something for everyone, but we encourage you to bring your own favorite dishes to share, especially for those food cultural topics you would like to improve on Misplaced Pages. We'll also do a portal thing for a bit with West Coast friends at the WikiLA ocean life edit-a-thon. All are welcome, new and experienced! Saturday, August 24, 2024 NYC Wiknic @ Roosevelt Island (RSVP on-wiki) Time: 2:00 - 7:00 pm (come by any time!) Salon-style Discussions: 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm (session A) 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm (session B) Location: Roosevelt Island (Southpoint Park, look for our Misplaced Pages/Wikimedia NYC banner). All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. See also upcoming events in September and October at Misplaced Pages:Meetup/NYC.

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Sep 25: Wikimedia NYC Annual Election Meeting (plus Latin music event on Sep 21!)

September 25: Annual Election & Members Meeting

[REDACTED] You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Annual Election & Members Meeting, with in-person at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, as well as an online-based participation option. The Members' Meeting is similar to other WikiWednesday meetups, except that its primary function is to elect a new Board of Directors. We will elect three board seats, half of the elected seats on the board. After being elected, those elected can potentially appoint more seats. We will also focus on the Wikimedia NYC Strategic Plan, our Financial Report, and Annual and Monthly event teams for the coming year. Election info: To run for election or to vote, you must be a dues-paying member of Wikimedia New York City, having renewed in the past 12 months. Voting will be both online, via emailed ballots from the ElectionBuddy service, and in-person. The poll will be open for the 48 hours between 8pm EDT on September 23 and 8pm EDT on September 25. For additional information, please consult the Election FAQ. Meeting info: Wednesday, September 25 Annual Election & Members Meeting (optional RSVP on-wiki). 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Open Hour) 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Wiki Salon) (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) Also online via Zoom All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. P.S. Also upcoming just before our annual meeting is the Latin music edit-a-thon, Wikicurious: Editing to the Beat (RSVP at Eventbrite), on Saturday September 21!

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Sep 21: Wikicurious for Latin Music: Editing to the Beat ♫

Sat Sep 21: Wikicurious - Editing to the Beat ♫ @ Lehman College

[REDACTED] You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for the "Editing to the Beat" event of the beginner-focused Wikicurious series at Lehman College. This is the second event of the series, following the inaugural event at Civic Hall in July. Led by a 9-person live band demonstrating Caribbean and Latin musical genres, we'll engage with efforts such as WikiProject Latin Music, and will encourage editing on both English and Spanish Misplaced Pages. All are welcome, and newcomers and aspiring editors are especially encouraged to attend. Registration via Eventbrite is required for building entry, and is also encouraged on the event page on Meta. The Wikicurious series is supported by Craig Newmark Philanthropies. Wikimedia NYC is an official affiliate and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Also supporting this event are Equis, The Celia Cruz Foundation, and the International Museum of Salsa. In association with WikiCari and AfroCrowd. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. Meeting info: Date: Saturday, September 21, 2024 Time: 1:00–7:00 p.m. Location: Lehman College (CUNY) 250 Bedford Park Blvd W, Bronx, NY Equipment: Please bring your own computer. We are not yet able to provide loaner laptops. Eventbrite RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wikicurious-editing-to-the-beat-tickets-1009115641047 RSVP is necessary for building entry.

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• Wed Sep 25: Wikimedia NYC Annual Election/Members Meeting 2024!
• Sat Oct 26: Wikidata Day 2024!

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User:DinosaursLoveExistence

Hello, The Blade of the Northern Lights,

To be honest, I'm surprised, after more than 18 years of editing, that this editor has been blocked. I think much of what they did was productive editing. They just drove other editors nuts by refusing to communicate when they had questions about their editing decisions. Does this mean that all of the IP accounts that are associated with their editing can be blocked for block evasion should they reappear? Although they used to do general editing of all types, these days they are easy to spot because all they do is categorize articles and categories.

It's been a while since I posted here so I hope you had a good summer and are doing well. Liz 20:32, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi. First off I'm doing fine, and hope you are as well. This is a classic "indefinite doesn't mean infinite" situation, so if there's any openness to communication you (or any other admin) can unblock without consulting me. But going back to doing exactly what lead to the block, except with IPs, is straight up block evasion. I'm not the best with categories (as I learned in dramatic fashion when helping clean up the gigantic mess that was longevity articles), and I know that sometimes blindly reverting can create issues of its own, so discretion is advised. But I'd definitely like to get a response from DinosaursLoveExistence and get an unblock. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 23:54, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Oct 26: Wikidata Day NYC

October 26: Wikidata Day in New York City

You are invited to Wikidata Day in New York City at Pratt Institute School of Information in Manhattan, in celebration of Wikidata's 12th birthday. This event, held by our chapter in collaboration with Pratt and Girls Who Code, will be our third annual celebration of Wikidata Day. It will feature spotlight sessions, lightning talks, and the customary Wiki-cake, while those unable to attend in person will be able to watch a livestream. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. Saturday, October 26, 2024 Wikidata Day in New York City (Eventbrite RSVP is required and also optionally on-wiki). 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Pratt Manhattan (rooms 201 and 214), 144 W 14th Street RSVP off-wiki is required for building entry!

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Blocked editor trolling User:AbdulRahim2002

Likely same editor who you blocked AbdulRahim2002 and is now trolling on my and your talk page. Special:Contributions/176.29.122.137. RangersRus (talk) 11:14, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

November 22 + 26: Free Culture Friday and Wikicurious photo event!

November 22: Free Culture Friday
[REDACTED] You are invited to Foundation and Friends' Free Culture Friday at Prime Produce on Friday, November 22. This event will feature a reception with Wikimedia Foundation staff in the afternoon, followed by a more informal salon and game night, utilizing Prime Produce's vast collection of board games. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! Friday, November 22, 2024 1:30 pm – 7:00 pm Prime Produce, 424 W 54th St
November 26: Wikicurious: Capturing the Moment
You are also invited to Wikicurious: Capturing the Moment, the third event of the beginner-focused Wikicurious series, at Jefferson Market Library on Tuesday, November 26, in collaboration with WikiPortraits and AfroCROWD. All are welcome to attend, especially those interested in photography or contributing to Wikimedia Commons. We will explore the art of capturing the moment through photography and learn the basics of Wikimedia Commons, and (weather-permitting) we are also planning a photo walk, so bring your camera (or use your smartphone)! Tuesday, November 26, 2024 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm Jefferson Market Library, 425 6th Ave RSVP on Eventbrite is required for event entry!
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Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Happy adminship anniversary! Hi The Blade of the Northern Lights! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 00:42, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Please lift my Topic Ban

You were the deciding admin for my topic ban of on circumcision. Since then, the other editor in the conflict has has a litany of blocks, topics bans, and finally a indefinite ban for sockpuppetry. It's almost certain that the incident for which I was blamed for outing was indeed a sock.

It should be noted that the previous Outing policy in April 2022 did not include a mention to external sites. This was fixed in January of this year. I was not the only editor to find this confusing.

Since my topic ban, the other contentious account and their socks had multiple blocks for edit warring, something I tried very hard to explain in my AE defense. You never responded once to my concerns, despite me leaving a message on your talk page and another reply on my talk. Since the ban, I've had zero behavioral issues, and the other editor and his socks have had 10+, I'm going to go ahead and say that I'm owed an apology for this. I tried to deal with an obviously malicious editor and I was ignored.Stix1776 (talk) 01:49, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

@The Blade of the Northern Lights, please respond.Stix1776 (talk) 05:42, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Apologies for not getting to this earlier, I didn't mean to leave you hanging. Since this involves oversighted material, I've e-mailed the oversight team about how best to handle this. I'll let you know when we figure out what to do here. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 15:55, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

@Stix1776 First of all, I apologize for how long this took. Because this involved oversighted material I wasn't sure how to proceed, and it took a couple days to get feedback from other oversighters. The general agreement is that your best bet is to make a standard appeal at AE; because I basically did this unilaterally I thought it wouldn't look completely above board if I were to then unilaterally decline it (this is entirely hypothetical; I'm completely neutral on this at the moment, don't take this to mean I'm against an appeal or that I might not end up supporting lifting it), so I thought outside input would be best. The agreement was that the rationale for oversight is the main thing reviewing admins need to know, so as long as you don't repost the contents (which I have no reason to think you'd do) this won't require a full-on ArbCom appeal. I'll be watching AE, if I have something to say there I'll say it; everything you wrote me above sounds reasonable, so you're off to a good start. Again, apologies for not getting to this sooner, that's on me and I appreciate the reminder. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 03:39, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Sat Jan 25: Misplaced Pages Day NYC 2025

January 25: Misplaced Pages Day
You are invited to Misplaced Pages Day 2025, hosted by Wikimedia NYC at the Brooklyn Public Library's central branch. The special focus this year will be the launch of our "400 Neighborhoods" campaign for the city's 400th anniversary and WikiProject New York City/400 Task Force. We'll also have a lightning talks session and you're invited to sign up for one, though space is somewhat limited. Saturday, January 25, 2025 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Brooklyn Central Library, Grand Army Plaza Afterparty: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm (off-site venue, TBA)
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