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First, please remember that I am not trying to attack you, demean you, or hurt you in any way. I am only trying to protect the integrity of this project. If I did something wrong, let me know, but remember that I am human, and I do make mistakes. Please keep your comments civil. If you vandalize this page or swear at me, you will not only decrease the likelihood of a response, your edits could get you blocked. (see WP:NPA) When posting, do not assume I know which article you are talking about. If you leave a message saying "Why did you revert me?", I will not know what you mean. If you want a response consisting of something other than "What are you talking about", please include links and, if possible, diffs in your message. At the very least, mention the name of the article or user you are concerned with. If you are blocked from editing, you cannot post here, but your talk page is most likely open for you to edit. To request a review of your block, add {{unblock|reason}} to your talk page. (replace reason with why you think you should not be blocked.) I watch the talk pages of everyone I block, so I will almost definitely see you make your request. If I am making edits (check Special:Contributions/Doug Weller) and I do not answer your request soon, or you cannot edit your talk page for some reason, you can try sending me an email. Please note, however, that I rarely check my email more than a few times a day, so it may be a couple of hours before I respond. Administrators: If you see me do something that you think is wrong, I will not consider it wheel-warring if you undo my actions. I would, however, appreciate it if you let me know what I did wrong, so that I can avoid doing it in the future. |
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God Jul och Gott Nytt År!
Gråbergs Gråa Sång is wishing you the season's greetings.
Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's solstice or Christmas,
Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus,
or the Saturnalia,
this is a special time of year for (almost) everyone.
Yo Ho Ho
— al-Shimoni (talk) is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!
Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec16a}}~~~~ to your friends' talk pages.
Yo Ho Ho
Donner60 (talk) is wishing a foaming mug of Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!
Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec20}} to your friends' talk pages.
A Joyous Yuletide to You!
JACKINTHEBOX • TALK is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!
Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas2}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
Yo Ho Ho
M.Bitton (talk) is wishing a foaming mug of Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!
Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec20}} to your friends' talk pages.
Happy New Year
Happy New Year 2021 I hope your New Year holiday is enjoyable and the coming year is much better than the one we are leaving behind. Best wishes from Los Angeles. // Timothy :: talk |
Administrators' newsletter – April 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).
Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS
- Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
- Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the
delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.
- When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
- Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)
- A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.
BritishSniper55/Jageracog2020
You blocked BritishSniper55 in Oct 2020 for sockpuppetry. I'm pretty sure the user Ukww1[1] is a sockpuppet, see identical editing style here:[2] Snooganssnoogans (talk) 01:34, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
- @Snooganssnoogans: went to look at it, Floq got there first. Doug Weller talk 09:16, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
Middle Eastern Jews: No end in sight
Hi Doug, I started that FTN discussion in the hope User:Bob drobbs would stop flooding talk pages with his reasoning. He got virtually no support on FTN, but still carries on regardless. He made about 60 edits in promotion of or related to the idea that Jews should be called Middle Eastern, mostly on talk pages, starting March 5th. I tried to ignore them, but he threatens and executes small scale edit warring: Help come up with a fair, non-biased standard, that will be applied to people of all religions or I'll keep reverting
[3]. After I put an uw-ew on his talk page, he started adding POV templates to List of Middle Eastern superheroes and Middle Eastern Americans (April 5, here). He also did do forum shopping, not on FTN, but on NPOVN and on DRN (where it was immeadiately rejected by a volunteer[4]). I'm really at a loss what to do. Take it to ANI ? --Rsk6400 (talk) 08:29, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
- @Rsk6400: yes, ANI. Doug Weller talk 12:19, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks, WP:ANI#User:Bob_drobbs_flooding_discussions. --Rsk6400 (talk) 18:44, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
Battle of Dabhoi
Can you undelete Battle of Dabhoi? It was deleted in 2012 due to creation by a blocked or banned user in violation of block or ban. The subject is a notable event. I want to work on it. Undeletion might be helpful. Regards,-Nizil (talk) 06:08, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
- @Nizil Shah: - done. Please fix the citations so that they should title, author, etc - including relevant page numbers. 09:14, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
(Possibly) stale page restrictions
Hi, I was recently doing a review of all the page restrictions I've placed or taken ownership of over the years, and I noticed that a majority of the pages were no longer battlegrounds and didn't require restrictions anymore. I was looking backwards a couple of months on the article history and talk page looking for major diputes, and for the most part things were pretty quiet. I've removed the BRD restrictions from about 70% of the articles that I had put them on, and the 1RR restrictions from probably 90% of pages.
I figured while I was at it I might as well try to track down the other pages with active sanctions and see if the admins who placed them might also be interested in doing a similar review. The following list might not be complete, but it's the best I could come up with by tracking usages of the American Politics AE template. (Perhaps you can compare it to whatever system you have for tracking your active sanctions.) For convenience I'll put links to the edit notice page and the talk page.
- Template:Editnotices/Page/David Malpass - Talk:David Malpass
- Template:Editnotices/Page/Executive Order 13768 - Talk:Executive Order 13768
- Template:Editnotices/Page/Ilhan Omar - Talk:Ilhan Omar
- Template:Editnotices/Page/Myron Ebell - Talk:Myron Ebell
- Template:Editnotices/Page/Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement - Talk:Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement
I'm hoping that removing some of these restrictions can help restore some sense of normalcy to the topic area. In any case I hope this list is helpful. ~Awilley (talk) 23:48, 8 April 2021 (UTC)