Welcome to RL0919's talk page.
I will generally respond here to comments that are posted here, rather than replying via your talk page (or the article's talk page, if you are writing to me here about an article), so you may want to watch this page until you are responded to, or let me know where specifically you'd prefer the reply.
Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
On behalf of the FAR coordinators, thank you, RL0919! Your work on Harriet Tubman has allowed the article to retain its featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. I hereby award you this Featured Article Save Award, or FASA. You may display this FA star upon your userpage. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 16:39, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
Congratulations to the successful saving efforts! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:53, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
How is the outcome of the AFD re-nomination on this article different from that of an AFD nomination on another article? Both don't have input from others, yet the outcome is different. George Ho (talk) 17:56, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
The obvious answer is that two different people closed the discussions, and human judgment can vary. As far as I can see, I would have closed the other discussion the same way I closed this one.
That said, I would also suggest that opening discussions for these situations may be counterproductive to begin with. The previous AfDs were a decade or more in the past, and much closer to when the subjects appeared on TV. The article creators are blocked for socking. Considering that no one bothered to comment on the AfDs, I strongly suspect that if you had just redirected the articles without opening a discussion about it, probably no one would have objected. Less work for you; no work for AfD participants and closers. --RL0919 (talk) 18:41, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
Isn't redirecting a previously-nominated article kinda risky, especially right now? Furthermore, as I feared, any Survivor-fanatic editor would undo the redirecting and then restore the article back to as-is without further ado. I don't wanna take the closed AFD discussion to review yet, but I figured you'll stand by your decision, right? George Ho (talk) 19:12, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
Almost forgot: AFD results... and even DRV ones are easier to enforce and more enforceable IMO than WP:IMPLICITCONSENSUS. George Ho (talk) 19:21, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
Your comments make me more comfortable with the choice to close as no consensus, not less. If you are so sure that someone would object to a redirect by you, then putting an admin stamp on a redirect based on a zero-input AfD would be placing a mantle of "enforceability" on a change that doesn't deserve it. --RL0919 (talk) 22:37, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
Technical news
Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)
Arbitration
Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.
A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)
Arbitration
An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
Miscellaneous
Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.
Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531
Hi, I don't want to go through the hassle of filing a report at ANI and I saw that you were active recently so I wanted to ask you to possibley block the IP 91.124.53.23. If you look at their talk page (and talk page history) they are clearly making personal attacks despite being warned multiple times and they have also threatened to do sockpuppetry. Thanks. GoldRomean (talk) 21:16, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
@GoldRomean: Already reported at AIV and blocked. If they do sock, you can file a request at WP:RFPP. TornadoLGS (talk) 21:18, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
Okay. Thanks for your help (and RL0919 sorry for wasting ur time). GoldRomean (talk) 21:19, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Vivian Jenna Wilson. 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. Rei (talk) 20:05, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
I was surprised in your closure statement that you stated that there were mostly Delete and Redirect "votes" as it looked to me like more editors were arguing for Keep than Delete. LizRead!Talk! 23:29, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
By my count (not the appellant's), 18 participants preferred redirection, 4 more were open to deletion or redirection, and 6 (including presumably the nominator) preferred deletion. This is easily more than the 17 clear keeps. (Two others did not provide a clear preference; one of those appeared to be arguing against notability, while the other was clearly against redirection but did not indicate an opinion about notability or keep vs. delete.) So just under 38% of the clear positions preferred keeping. --RL0919 (talk) 02:49, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
I just came to remove my comment as I said something similar at the Deletion Review. LizRead!Talk! 03:19, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.
Hi, I do not understand why you keep deleting my input on the Atlas Shrugged page... The libertarians and conservatives site the work as an influence do in fact subscribe to "rational selfishness," the philosophy of the book.... So why delete that fact? 2600:8800:4021:DE00:836:FE33:DAE6:8908 (talk) 19:53, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
You may believe so, but if you want to insert such claims into Wikipedia you should supply reliablesecondary sources that have reached this conclusion. And then be prepared to make a case that they are representative of a common viewpoint that that warrants inclusion. So far, you haven't even responded to the Talk page discussion that has been open since March. --RL0919 (talk) 05:36, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.
Miscellaneous
Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
Hi, thank you for performing the redirects of the SNL history articles to the new article as per the AfD. I've been changing any links to those old pages from other articles to reflect the new article, and I was wondering if it might be worth it to clean up and delete a lot of these old redirects to the redirects that are now pretty useless? I've compiled a full list of redirects that I'll happily supply if you decide this is worth looking at, but a partial list includes History of SNL:2010-2015, History of Saturday Night Live (2015-present), and History of Saturday Night Live (2020-present). All of these are now double redirects; I have a list of many more. They can easily be changed to match the new history article but would it be better to just delete them and keep things simple? Having a bunch of redirects for potential misspellings of a redirect (being kept only for its page history) seems a bit much, no? StewdioMACK (talk) 16:34, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
@StewdioMACK: There are bots that will fix most double redirects, although you are also welcome to fix any that you find. As far as deleting them goes, that typically requires a WP:RFD discussion, and redirects that have meaningful page history are almost always kept to comply with our copyright licensing requirements. (See Wikipedia:Merge and delete for more detail about that.) --RL0919 (talk) 16:51, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for response, that makes sense - just to clarify, I didn't mean to delete those redirects with page histories that were just redirected by you, but rather, the redirects TO those redirects with no page history that will no longer see any usage. Happy to leave them alone though. I have put one of them up at WP:RFD (Slap Pack) as I don't understand the context of it and it's not used, but I haven't put the rest up. I don't think it'd be controversial to delete them though. StewdioMACK (talk) 17:02, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
I never extended my congratulations for the splendid rewrite that is Harriet Tubman! It's deeply humbling to see such a depth of research and wide coverage. Thanks for all you did there and elsewhere! Aza24 (talk) 23:28, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
A courtesy note, some of your photos were added to this article.TomStonehunter (talk) 13:12, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
Wikiwand in your browser!
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.