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Thank you for closing the RfC at Talk:Andy Ngo. You were very diligent and did a great job explaining and summarizing the key points on both sides. ––FormalDude talk 19:32, 27 August 2021 (UTC) |
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On the off chance you're interested, I'll be submitting a series of requests for improving the Red Bull entry on behalf of Red Bull GmbH.
Thanks! Inkian Jason (talk) 13:09, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
In case you have pings disabled, I'm hoping you're able to review this request to remove a 5th paragraph of information about energy drinks in general (not Red Bull specifically) from the introduction. I would also invite you to see the related request, which was rejected with little feedback, because I'm failing to understand why this article should have so much content about energy drinks in general when Red Bull is one of many energy drink brands and there's a separate article for energy drinks. Thanks for your continued feedback on my requests. Inkian Jason (talk) 18:49, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are still open, but not for long. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! No further nominations will be accepted after that time. Voting will commence on 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:42, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
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On 5 October 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Relocation of the United States Government to Trenton, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1799, the federal government of the United States was evacuated to Trenton, New Jersey due to an outbreak of yellow fever? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Relocation of the United States Government to Trenton. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Relocation of the United States Government to Trenton), 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.
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Hello ,Chestsford ,I Request for PC reviwers Rights , I 'm already requested for this rights on WP:PERM .I request to you please attention on my Request .Best Request .Maniik 🇮🇳Any Help🇮🇳? Contact Me. 14:35, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi Chetsford. Just an update: TheChronium's New Page Reviewer rights have been rescinded and the user indeff blocked for WP:UPE and sockpuppetry. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 18:53, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
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A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:05, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Chetsford,
You mostly likely remember me from our discussion regarding the article Discrimination against people with red hair. I think, on occasion, our communication was ineffective and I'd like to share my reasoning for it with you.
Firstly, I think your word choice when corresponding with me oscillates between sarcastic to contemptuous. Let me give some examples: Yeah, that's indeed a mystery. Chetsford (talk) 23:54, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
In this instance, I think your way of answering a serious comment by me was not constructive.
Another example is you writing "ok" in your edit summary multiple times even though you disagree with me. You can check here for instances of this. I believe this also was not constructive.
The last one is related to your removal of tags on the article Discrimination against people with red hair. On the article talk page, I shared only some instances of problems to show that the article is problematic in general, however, you perceived the examples in my post as the only problems with the article, which was not clearly not I meant.
Nevertheless, I believe we can engage in a constructive dialog to create better articles. I'm willing to further collaborate with you on Wikipedia. Best regards.--John the Janitor (talk) 11:01, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
The 2021 re-examination of RFA has been completed. 23 (plus 2 variants) ideas were proposed. Over 200 editors participated in this final phase. Three changes gained consensus and two proposals were identified by the closers as having the potential to gain consensus with some further discussion and iteration. Thanks to all who helped to close the discussion, and in particular Primefac, Lee Vilenski, and Ymblanter for closing the most difficult conversations and for TonyBallioni for closing the review of one of the closes.
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Editors who wish to discuss these ideas or other ideas on how to try to address any of the six issues identified during phase 1 for which no proposal gained are encouraged to do so at RFA's talk page or an appropriate village pump.
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The article Coordination Council (Afghanistan) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
It was a reasonable creation at the time, but the council never got to do anything since the Taliban were able to seize power on their own. I am unable to find any coverage in RS that isn't just about the council getting created.
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