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You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Khafi Khan § Quotations. TrangaBellam (talk) 09:46, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
Greetings Vanamonde93. Regarding the Fireal article which you recently deleted per AFD, will you please userfy it for me at User:John Cline/Fireal. Thank you.--John Cline (talk) 01:31, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
You achieved conclusion with discussion to remove Breast Tax ? .2402:3A80:500:C03B:0:70:500C:5301 (talk) 03:03, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
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On 13 October 2021, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Marie Wilcox, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 01:55, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
Can I please request that the page The Dark Side (Fireal album), deleted on October 2nd, be userfied and moved over so I can help improve it? Thanks! Dragonsnowballcat (talk) 03:22, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
Just a courtesy response to your close of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lilandra Neramani. I disagree with your premature close of the subject topic. I am not opposed to a merge into a list article if that is ultimately what the community has decided, but there simply is no strong consensus for an action to merge at this point in time. Only one editor came up with a definite call to merge, but did not cite any proper guideline or policy or even essay other then a vapid declaration of "No MCU no glory", which in my opinion is weightless and should be discarded. The appropriate action, given the lack of strong consensus, is to relist the topic. What I believe you have done here is essentially a super vote which is at odds with anything resembling a rough consensus in this discussion, where two editors argued strongly for "delete" but there were more numerical "keep" votes. You also did not perform any actual merge of the content and simply did a blanket redirect. Haleth (talk) 15:44, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
Our article on Magtymguly Pyragy, a legendary Turkmen poet, depends entirely on sources which were produced by scholars affiliated with Govt. of Turkmenistan. A totalitarian regime (heard of the Ruhnama?), Turkmenistan exercises absolute censorship on all content and has consistently ranked among the bottom three nation-states in anything that has to do with human rights.
Western scholarship on Pyragy is scarce (read, non-existent). That being said, a scholar has discussed how these works aimed to satisfy a spectrum of political goals: a particular source (used in our article) is noted to have deduced the birthdate of Pyragy on sketchy logic, so that 2014 could be presented as the poet's 290th birth anniversary, as wished by the incumbent President. At-least one another scholar (Bouma) had made caustic remarks about the poor state of historical scholarship (not specifically concerning Pyragy) in Turkmenistan, frequently serviced towards idiosyncratic political ends and the total stifling of dissenting voices. I had not come across any scholar, who challenges these observations.
Therefore, I think that all such works need to be treated as primary sources (you cannot even trust them on the birth-year!) and used sparingly, if at all. Especially, when the article is a GA. Do I make much sense? All relevant wiki-projects are inactive for years — taking a 3O before going the RfC route. TrangaBellam (talk) 11:04, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
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You reverted all my edits. Just wanted to know if you assessed all the edits? As I provided some solid sources for some my edits like as in death of Shivaji. Akshaypatill (talk) 18:19, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).
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The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is The Rambling Man (submissions), who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:
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Hi Vanamonde93. Just so you're aware, you're being targeted on social media here for your recent deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Julie Solomon. This is an unfortunate side effect of a simmering, long-term content dispute on the article Johnathan Schaech, which recently boiled over at WP:COIN#Johnathon Schaech. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 17:52, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
Hello, you recently closed an AFD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2020 May Kado massacre, based on that i started a AFD a in smaller(did before check) of 25 articles, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2020 May Kado massacre (2nd nomination), unfortunately i went wrong somewhere and can't link up a related page such Megab massacre to the deletion discussion page, if i remove/replace or change the AFD message according to the steps, it will show an error(i did show preview to check). Can you assist in linking that article to the deletion discussion page, so that i can learn from the diff and repeat for the other 23 articles?? Dawit S Gondaria (talk) 03:20, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for your assistance with the WiG mini-reviews during our first Women in Green editathon event! You helped make this event a success. :-) Best, Alanna the Brave (talk) 16:18, 19 November 2021 (UTC) |
Vanamonde, you had reviewed the Shivaji in 2018 for GA and had raised several points. Can I work on them and mark them done, if I improve it?
For example, you raised a point "a conflict between the Afghans and Bijapur" Bijapur and Afghanistan are a long, long way apart, and have the Mughal empire between them. What's going on here?"
"Having recovered from an illness, and taking advantage of a conflict between the Afghans and Bijapur, Shivaji raided Athani, in April 1676." is wrongly interpreted from the source and the mistake is likely happened while summerising the content. The source states - "The civil war that had broken out between the Deccani and Afghan parties at Bijapur, was Shivaji's opportunity." Akshaypatill (talk) 18:11, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
I wish to make some changes to the 'Indo-Aryanism' article to enable legitimate factual information on the page. It seems that the article is infested with baseless claims and factual errors and I intend to bring out the facts. I also cited my changes. I want to know why the page is being reverted back to its original version. I would request you to allow me to make the necessary changes. Thanks. Concurrence (talk) 00:43, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors December 2021 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the December GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since September 2021. Current and upcoming events
Election time: Our end-of-year election of coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before "Auld Lang Syne". Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. December Blitz: We have scheduled a week-long copy-editing blitz for 12 to 18 December. Sign up now! Drive and Blitz reports
September Drive: Almost 400,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 27 people who signed up, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. October Blitz: From 17 to 23 October, we copy edited articles tagged in May and June 2021 and requests. 8 participating editors completed 26 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. November Drive: Over 350,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 21 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. Other news
It is with great sadness that we report the death on 19 November of Twofingered Typist, who was active with the Guild almost daily for the past several years. His contributions long exceeded the thresholds for the Guild's highest awards, and he had a hand in innumerable good and featured article promotions as a willing collaborator. Twofingered Typist also served as a Guild coordinator from July 2019 to June 2021. He is sorely missed by the Wikipedia community. Progress report: As of 30 November, GOCE copyeditors have completed 619 requests in 2021 and there were 51 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog stood at 946 articles tagged for copy-editing (see monthly progress graph above). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).
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MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 01:25, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi Vanamonde,
I saw that you closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/South Sudan-Spain relations as a delete discussion on a 2-1 !vote, in which I took part, and where I find the balance of proof given by delete and keep voters to amount to a no consensus/relist. I take issues with the following:
I hope you will be able to shed some light on how you closed this AfD, as I am considering a nomination at DRV. Thank you. Pilaz (talk) 23:20, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
"Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention, but it does not need to be the main topic of the source material".The sum of topically separate interactions between states, if covered in-depth, will amount to GNG if they are multiple and sustained - in the same way that an separate coverage about an artist's youth, career, criminal record, and death will amount to significant coverage of the subject of a biographical article. I get your point about WP:PRIMARY, and while secondary sources are preferred, nothing within Wikipedia bars the use of primary sources when discussing elements of the relationship which require no interpretation, such as the fact that Spain has an embassy in South Sudan (see WP:SCHOLARSHIP, for example). You agree that the nomination rationale was flawed - although I argue the nomination as a whole was invalid. You don't seem to disagree that Yilloslime's came without the burden of proof either. We however both agree that it wasn't a 3:1 vote but a 2:1 vote given that the submitter's rationale was procedurally flawed, hence invalid. You haven't addressed my point about Libstar, either. As a result, with respect to my interpretation of the GNG, AfD precedent, the flawed nomination, and the !vote distribution, I will be taking it to DRV for review. Pilaz (talk) 13:33, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
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Check out Special:Contributions/N1234567. Edits like this despite my warning, hours earlier. There is not a single positive contribution. TrangaBellam (talk) 10:03, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Vanamonde93
If you have a moment free at some stage, I was wondering if I could ask if you might be able to act as a mediator in relation to a disagreement around a page (a few other pages might be caught up in it as well, I think).
My apologies about the brevity of my message, I have to leave now. But if you are free, let me know and I'll see if I am able to post the details in the near future.
Thanks for your attention
Regards
Inchiquin (talk) 19:09, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
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I was planning to translate all the GA content at French article about species of nuthatches, and nominate some of them into GA like Blue nuthatch. Was planning to go next on White-browed nuthatch, but are there any ref tools to use when citing properly like DOI or books? I already translated content from french article of Krüper's nuthatch, but had no idea how to cite them properly. Also, Merry Christmas! 2001:4455:1A9:E100:E8E1:53A4:6D0F:9E49 (talk) 08:34, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
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