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Republic of Artsakh#RfC outcome

Hello, I apologize for the inconvenience; could you kindly express your thoughts on this? Despite the fact that the RfC was closed without consensus, one of the users who also participated in RfC alters Artsakh's political status on the different articles to what he feels it should be. Thanks in advance! A b r v a g l 07:13, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

@Abrvagl and AntonSamuel: Without comment to the specific merits of the changes, I don't think that the lack of a consensus at that RfC would either endorse or prohibit changes in other articles from the wording of the close itself. As always, consensus should be achieved if there are contested changes, but the basis for keeping the various mentions regarding the polity was linked to WP:NOCON because there was no local consensus to make a change. A lack of consensus at one discussion doesn't mean that there can't be consensus other pages that the use of a term is more appropriate in a particular context, but making arbitrary changes in a widespread manner without consensus in a way that makes it near impossible to reverse can be considered disruptive editing. I don't think that changing terms in a mere five articles times is necessarily disruptive editing, but I'm also not an administrator and as a result of my related lack of action at AE I don't tend to have good knowledge of the threshold to trigger AA2 arbitration enforcement actions. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 18:27, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for responding. I am not an administrator either, but there were a number of disagreements on the multiple articles on how the political status of the Artsakh Republic should be described, and RfC was started as a result. RfC was not intended just for the Republic of Artsakh article, as evidenced by the question Should Republic of Artsakh be described as in Misplaced Pages articles?. I believe it is unacceptable that a person, who participated in that RfC and understands what is what, makes contentious edits by altering Artsakh's political status on several articles without any consensus or discussion, and continues to do so despite being pointed out by several users. A b r v a g l 04:25, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Response to ping

Hello. The evidence you provided at WP:RfAR is partly in error. The original ANI discussion was first closed by GiantSnowman (diff), then by myself (diff). I did so at the time to avoid the repetition of a split discussion, since there was no proposal to do anything, while some folks asked for it to be closed a 2nd time for those reasons. Personally, I think it'd be better if the community were to deal with this matter, since not only is ARBCOM slow to do, well, pretty much anything — but also, at times, they could be unresponsive even at the face of overwhelming community consensus (unless bureaucracy). Thanks for your attention. El_C 18:01, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

@El C: I'll correct the statement; my apologies for providing an incomplete history. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 18:03, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Not at all. Thanks for the prompt reply. El_C 18:04, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

I stand corrected. El_C 18:44, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

Hello Red-tailed hawk,

Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

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Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!

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Amendment request closed

A request for amendment that you were a party to has been closed. The arbitrators felt that Valereee's actions were within the bounds of her discretion and that the discussion of a new deletion criterion should be saved for the second RfC. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:12, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Clarification request re: closure of 2022 RfC on bilateral relations

Hello, would it be possible to obtain further clarification regarding your closure of 2022 RfC on bilateral relations article titles at Talk:France–Germany border? Thank you. Pilaz (talk) 19:25, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Early end of the backlog drive

A few days ago, new page patrollers got the backlog to zero. Due to the unprecedented success of the backlog drive, it will be ending early—at the end of 24 October, or in approximately two hours.

Barnstars will be awarded as soon as the coords can tally the results. Streak awards will be allocated based on the first three weeks of the drive, with the last three days being counted as part of week three.

Great work everyone! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:50, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

New message from Narutolovehinata5

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NPP Backlog Drive Awards

		The Reviewer Barnstar
		This award is given to Red-tailed hawk for collecting more than 50 points doing reviews and re-reviews, in the October NPP backlog reduction drive. Thank you for your contributions. Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 09:28, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

		Worm Gear Award
		This award is given to Red-tailed hawk for collecting more than 7 points per week doing reviews, in the October NPP backlog reduction drive. Thank you for your contributions Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 09:28, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

ugwiki

Hi! I like to visit wikis and help them clean up files. One of the wikis I visited is ugwiki and I see you are cleaning up there. Great! Do you have a special relation to ugwiki or are you working on other wikis too? I made m:User:MGA73/Media per wiki some time ago and it takes a long time to clean up so it's nice to meet other users that work on files too :-) --MGA73 (talk) 13:47, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

@MGA73: Thank you for the message! I am an active admin on ugWiki and I'm trying to go through all the files to determine their copyright status and appropriate licensing by the end of December. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 20:33, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

Sounds good! Unless ugwiki has fair use you will probably have to delete many of the remaining files. But time will tell :-) --MGA73 (talk) 15:55, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

There's no fair use policy on ugWiki, so most of them will wind up needing to be deleted. The reason it's taking time is that I don't want to lazily delete something available under {{pd-art}} if I can avoid it. Most of the photographs of people that are locally hosted will probably have to go. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 16:06, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 October 2022

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DYK for Run-pass option

On 2 November 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Run-pass option, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that run-pass option plays used in college football allow quarterbacks to pass the ball farther downfield than those used in in the NFL? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Run-pass option. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Run-pass option), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Courtesy note

Please note that the article Aaron Maté is now under a 72-hour one-revert restriction for the next month (till 6 December), up from the normal 24-hour restriction in place for all Syrian Civil War articles. This message is being sent to all recent editors of that article, and implies no wrongdoing on your part.

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Newimpartial (talk) 02:08, 12 November 2022 (UTC)