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Season's Greetings

FWiW Bzuk (talk) 01:40, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Happy Christmas to you!
A BIG thank you for your help all these days. Here's my best wishes for a wonderful christmas and happy holidays. May peace, happiness and prosperity follow you always! Warm regards, Lakshmisreekanth (talk) 07:13, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

January 2020 at Women in Red

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Wishing...

A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to my favorite Brown haired Irish girl Wikipedian! I know, it was a hard choice, but of all the many people I know in the extensive category of Brown haired Irish girl Wikipedians, I chose you to wish well. A great honor, no doubt. Have a terrific day! Newshunter12 (talk) 07:45, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

Belated Merry Christmas

I see that Cmdr. Wikipetan is already standing watch on your home page. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:36, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 December 2019

• From the editors: Caught with their hands in the cookie jar, again

• News and notes: What's up (and down) with administrators, articles and languages

• Special report: Are reputation management operatives scrubbing Misplaced Pages articles?

• In the media: "The fulfillment of the dream of humanity" or a nightmare of PR whitewashing on behalf of one-percenters?

• Discussion report: December discussions around the wiki

• Arbitration report: Announcement of 2020 Arbitration Committee

• Traffic report: Queens and aliens, exactly alike, once upon a December

• Technology report: User scripts and more

• Gallery: Holiday wishes

• Recent research: Acoustics and Misplaced Pages; Wiki Workshop 2019 summary

• From the archives: The 2002 Spanish fork and ads revisited (re-revisited?)

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Op-Ed: Why we need to keep talking about Misplaced Pages's gender gap

• WikiProject report: Wikiproject Tree of Life: A Wikiproject report

Happy New Year!

		Best wishes for a healthy and prosperous 2020.
		Thank you for your contributions toward making Misplaced Pages a better and more accurate place. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 13:03, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

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Arbitration

• The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
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Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU 00:33, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

SWC bits

Hi, hope all's well. The SWC team have had a bit of a purge and almost cleaned out the backlog, but there's a couple that could do with an admin. Can you edit user scripts? Category:Foo is currently occupied by User:Unit388/popups.js thanks to a passing comment in line 7031, but Unit388 hasn't been editing since May 2017. There's also a couple of user categories that could do with attention... Le Deluge (talk) 21:33, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

hi @Le Deluge. Long time no speak; I hope you are well.

I had seen that the backlog at Special:WantedCategories had grown again, but I hadn't the energy myself to do more than nibble at it. So congrats to those of you who have levelled the mountain.

I used to be able to edit user scripts, but that was changed about two years again some reconfiguration of admin rights. I think I did find some place to ask others to fix them, but can't remember where. I suggest trying WP:VPT.

I have tackled a few of the usercats. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 03:25, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

SWC is now looking a lot happier (for the time being...), at least it's got the decade off to a good start even if I probably won't be able to keep an eye on it going forward. Thanks to any lurkers here who helped out, it really is a case of many hands making light work. I got the script sorted thank you. Le Deluge (talk) 15:57, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

That's good news, @Le Deluge.

Special:WantedCategories look wonderfully clean. I see you got the script problem fixed by a request at WP:RFPP], which is great. Sorry that I didn't think of that. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:31, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Atlantic Quarter

The article Atlantic Quarter has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

This development will never be built. The developer has gone into administration, the land has been sold off, and planning permission for the proposals expired in 2019.

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@Cardiffbear88: I have WP:DEPRODed the article, for the reasons set out in my edit summary. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:41, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

Olympic template

I was wondering if you would go to this template and fix the "2020" so that it is no longer showing Italicised. Being 2020, it can now be shown normal. Thanks. https://en.wikipedia.org/Template:Summer_Olympics_by_year_category_navigation Johnsmith2116 (talk) 12:09, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

@Johnsmith2116: Done. Thanks for the nudge! --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:16, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks and you're welcome. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 12:17, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Redaction request

Would you be able to redact this edit for which I have an OTRS ticket Ticket:2020011710007574 request? ww2censor (talk) 14:55, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

@Ww2censor: No prob. It's done. Happy new year! --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:00, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

Category:Algeria sports-related lists has been nominated for discussion

Category:Algeria sports-related lists, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Iketsi (talk) 05:44, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Category:American Samoa sports-related lists has been nominated for discussion

Category:American Samoa sports-related lists, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Iketsi (talk) 05:56, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Category:Angola sports-related lists has been nominated for discussion

Category:Angola sports-related lists, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Iketsi (talk) 05:59, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Category:Antigua and Barbuda sports-related lists has been nominated for discussion

Category:Antigua and Barbuda sports-related lists, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Iketsi (talk) 06:00, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Category:Bolivia sports-related lists has been nominated for discussion

Category:Bolivia sports-related lists, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Iketsi (talk) 06:01, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Category:Brazil sports-related lists has been nominated for discussion

Category:Brazil sports-related lists, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Iketsi (talk) 06:10, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Category:British Virgin Islands sports-related lists has been nominated for discussion

Category:British Virgin Islands sports-related lists, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Iketsi (talk) 06:10, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Category:Brunei sports-related lists has been nominated for discussion

Category:Brunei sports-related lists, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Iketsi (talk) 06:11, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Category:Burundi sports-related lists has been nominated for discussion

Category:Burundi sports-related lists, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Iketsi (talk) 06:11, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

AWB cannot find csc.exe

Hi BrownHairedGirl, just wondered whether you managed to find a solution to the AWB problem ("Can't find csc.exe") you flagged in October 2019 here? My AWB has just started giving the same error message after I moved to Windows 10. Best regards — Hebrides (talk) 09:34, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi Hebrides

'Fraid not. I have two Windows 10 machines, and my main one is fine. It runs AWB without that problem.

The problem arose when my main machine broke, and had to use my backup Win 10 machine. It has similar hardware, but has the csc.exe problem. I tried all the suggestions at that thread, but none worked.

I am OK again now, because I fixed my main machine, but the backup is still as it was in October.

I have a suspicion that my backup machine (a laptop which I bought secondhand) may have been upgraded to Win 10 from an previous version of Win. It has no problems in any other respect, but I wonder if the upgrade process is the source of this error.

It's a great pity, 'cos even for a very amateur programmer like me, custom modules make AWB a vastly more powerful tool. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:49, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi BrownHairedGirl and thanks for your reply. I'm pleased to say that my error message problem is now solved, thanks to an explanation by Rjwilmsi – see the thread here. It's a .NET version problem, and as soon as I got past the AWB error message by editing a copy of the AWB settings file and removing the module code, when I relaunched AWB, Windows 10 offered to download and install the version of .NET that was needed. Once that was done, AWB loaded my unedited settings file with its C# module and everything is working. I agree that Custom Modules are an amazing way of extending the functionality of AWB. Hope that works for you too. Best wishes — Hebrides (talk) 23:36, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Paralympic alpine skiers of Finland

A tag has been placed on Category:Paralympic alpine skiers of Finland requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Hi there

left|thumb|300px|P.O. mural in Rifle, Colorado Hey BrownHairedGirl you pinged me a few times, and I am sorry for not replying more quickly! I am flattered that you follow my work sometimes, but really it isn't necessary to ping me if I have made a typo in my writing or my usage of categories. Please don't bother with that! :) thumb|450px|Historic house built by Mormon pioneers in Utah, 20-40 years after their arrival in Bluff, Idaho Anyhow, perhaps you'll enjoy some of my relatively recent photos? Have a nice day, :) --Doncram (talk) 01:29, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

@Doncram, your comment is at best disingenuous, and might be better described as dishonest.

As you know very well — because we have had this discussion many times before — I do not follow work. I sometimes cleanup Special:WantedCategories, which is routinely cluttered with entries created by you adding articles to categories which do not exist, and which need to be fixed. For example, from yesterday: , , , .

A typo is a few characters out of place, but none of those is a typo. Each one of them is a more substantive error.

And in every case, the errors are readily visible as errors: the categories show up as redlinks at the bottom of the page, so they are clearly visible to you when you have edited the page. No edit for careful proof-reading; just look for the red text.

But you know all this. We have been over it many times before, and you have been blocked for it before. So I count your post here as trolling. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 09:18, 20 January 2020 (UTC)