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April songs

in memory of your koekjes --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:48, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

• What a nice surprise! I'll take flowers over little cakes every time. Men don't get enough flowers, IMHO. BusterD (talk) 09:09, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

  thank you! - how about the songs? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:29, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

  you deserve an extra flower for mentioning RexxS above - pictured on my talk, twice - one of my songs is on the main page, DYK? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:33, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

  I heartily agree. They're so beautiful - meaningful, too. –♠Vami_IV†♠ 13:17, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Williams

Sadly, it looks like the article on T. Harry Williams has been deleted as a copyright violation. Hog Farm _Talk 03:57, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

The subject has FA potential. If you plan this right, you might take this from deletion to DYK to the highest heights, and since he's not controversial you wouldn't be catching much from the peanut gallery. This is the top Internet Archive Scholar result. If you wanted to recreate a fresh and new copyvio (or not), it's all in that reviewed tome. I should think info about the man is out there in spades. I own several works. Lincoln and the Radicals is fundamental to my understanding of Stanton and the Committee on the Conduct. It is, however, 80 years old. BusterD (talk) 09:18, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

I'll put it on my list, which right now consists of rewriting Battle of Van Buren to save it from getting the same fate (one of its primary editors from back in 2013 often violated copyrights) and then bluelinking the Little Rock campaign, which I'm shocked we don't have an article on. I've got Lincoln and His Generals somewhere at home. Catton was the first one I read - I recently picked up a copy of his American Heritage Picture History of the American Civil War at a charity book sale because it was the first Civil War book I ever read. Hog Farm _Talk 13:17, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

The continuing Carletteyt saga

I am the original admin handling the first ANI about Carletteyt, blocking him for 1 week only due to recognizing the potential good faith of the editor. I just caught up on the rest of the story and I would just like to commend you on your persistence with the editor, trying to help him. It may not work out, and I will leave the ongoing handling of the case to the currently handling admin, but I commend you for your kindness and persistence. Oz\ 22:15, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, April 2022

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 on military logistics and rebuilding Nagasaki

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A beer for you!

Fancy a drink? –♠Vami_IV†♠ 07:19, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, brother. Too much caffeine today. Appreciate your thinking of me. I get a light early week then I'll get swamped toward the end. Tired. Glad to be alive. BusterD (talk) 07:56, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

nothing

nothing Fakescientist8000 01:35, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

couldn't've made it a burger? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 01:43, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

@Theleekycauldron check your talk. Cheers! Fakescientist8000 22:01, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

@Fakescientist8000: well I appreciate that :) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 22:03, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

@Theleekycauldron ok Cheers! Fakescientist8000 22:34, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of John Hoskins (officer)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article John Hoskins (officer) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hog Farm -- Hog Farm (talk) 04:41, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

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• Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
• Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

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• The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
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Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

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EPAM Ukraine

Hi BusterD. I saw that you sometimes help editors with a disclosed conflict of interest. I was hoping you would be willing to weigh-in regarding my COI request here. I previously posted at BLPN, but it did not prompt much discussion. To the extent one editor seemed to agree, no changes were made. Thank you in advance for your time and attention should you choose to volunteer it. Ladida555 (talk) 16:56, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Dropping in without calling ahead first...

...is just one of my ways of being annoying, but here I am. Just saying hi and hope and trust everything is going swimmingly and that you are enjoying your work here. Herostratus (talk) 00:04, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

@Herostratus:My week has been long, and I'm sorry for seeing but not replying to your message. Swamped W-Sat. I'm trying to get back to improving pagespace, and re-learning reviewing technique, trying to step back into my own shoes. This last year I've felt cloudy, muddy and sticky, not like my normal boring self. I thank you for the collegial ping. It is nice of you to think of me. BusterD (talk) 18:19, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Sure, of course. Seems likes it's been mostly a meh year for most of the people I talk to everywhere. Hopefully the coming months will be better... you know, we all really do appreciate you guys grinding it out here on top of all the claims and pressures of meatspace. Carry on and fear no evil! Herostratus (talk) 18:46, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Lately I've been stressing about my own usefulness. Even when I had extra time I was using it reactively and not proactively. The next few weeks I'll have virtually no time available to edit four days a week and then I'll be really exhausted on my weekend. Have been doing a small something to make myself feel useful. Today trying to build one of my own pages to GA, and then have Vami IV cued up to walk me through another GA review. By getting some of my own work reviewed I can better understand how to review. I have recently admitted I frequently run into a "stuckness" during even the simplest of new page reviews. Going back to basics to work through this headspace/willingness thing. Help from my friends (and my friends need best give me blunt, direct feedback) is always welcome. BusterD (talk) 18:58, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) you let me know if there's any boon you need beg for, i'll be right there :) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 19:32, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Your usefulness here you mean? Enh don't worry about that is my advice. First of all, you're useful, of course you are, you're talented at encyclopedia work so how could you not be useful (and especially considering what they're paying you). And, really, we don't want you to try to be more useful than makes you happy. At the end of the day its a hobby. Sometimes it makes me happy to focus on doing something difficult, sometimes it makes me happy to drift thru the material for the sake of reading it and fix occasional typos and whatever. They're both useful, and they're both equally useful to the level of what makes me happy at that moment in time. You don't have to improve your review skills or do anything else on any timeline but what makes you feel good. You don't have to do any administrative tasks, or any other tasks you don't want to, today, this week, or this year, if you don't want. Write about tulips instead or whatever. Sort your socks. Herostratus (talk) 05:26, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Hoskins review

I'm not sure if you saw on my talk page, but I'm taking a bit of a wikibreak for at least a few more days. I'm still trying to keep track of the Hoskins review, but am not particularly active (expect to be back to normalish levels aroud the end of the week. Just ping me if you're ready for me to take another look and I'll see what I can do. Hog Farm _Talk 18:33, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

I'm glad you're taking a LOA. Important for one's gumption. Today Hoskins is directly in my sights. As long as I'm not abusing your patience, I'd rather do this well than quickly. BusterD (talk) 18:44, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Take as long as you need! Quality is certainly better than speed here. Hog Farm _Talk 18:47, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Help With Proposed New Draft

Hi BusterD. Hope this finds you well. I was hoping you might be willing to review my COI request here (and subsequent ones if willing). Many thanks Daizypeach (talk) 10:46, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

In my opinion this subject doesn't meet the standard for inclusion and the page is entirely promotional in tone, even after significant trimming by other wikipedians. I'd be more inclined to accept an article on the business, which is what the sources directly detail. Wikipedians are volunteers, which means they can choose which efforts they wish to undertake. I'm going to decline to make any effort on this subject at this time. BusterD (talk) 16:34, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

Congrats

Hello BD. I saw this post and had to stop by and say congrats on your honorary jewish motherhood! Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 15:17, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. It's a strange thing to feel slightly less... gentile than before. I'd say I didn't seek out any such honor, just a prune pastry. I'm just very proud of my bi-coastal girls, both in RL and onwiki. BusterD (talk) 16:14, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

Hello BusterD,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 812 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 848 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

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I have sent you a note about a page you started

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Templates

I was on a very hectic work trip last week and wasn't able to stay caught up with stuff. I saw the ACW campaign templates TFD was just relisted; I imagine there's going to need to be some workshopping to determine the best template format. Any ideas on the best way to do that would be appreciated. Also RE Hoskins - I haven't been able to follow that article closely between my wikibreak and the messy work strip, so please ping me when you're ready for me to take another look. Hog Farm _Talk 20:59, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

Very kind of you to think of me. My days have grown increasingly strenuous, and while not harmful or unhealthful, the tempo is taxing in more than one way. I'm taking on stress which isn't mine to own, for example. Not ENOUGH screen time, for a change. The things we do to keep our promises. On the other hand, after I get some sleep, I expect to dive into Uncle John. Will buzz you when. I've spent some time working with Atsme and NPP this week and I'm not done tasking her yet. I am very interested is getting the templates sorted out; your concept seems reasonable and discuss-able. And then I want to get comfortable improving some of my better work. BusterD (talk) 04:33, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXCIII, May 2022

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 on a World War II summit and the American space program

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Abraham Bradley Jr. (1767–1838) was an American lawyer, judge, and cartographer who served as Assistant Postmaster General for 30 years during the earliest history of the United States Post Office Department. He was responsible for moving the federal government's post office from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the new capital at Washington, D.C., and briefly hosted the national post office in his own home. The continuity brought by Bradley's long employment during the tenures of five United States postmasters general helped establish the budding postal service as a reliable provider; he also drew detailed and innovative postal route maps that built the office's efficiency. He drew one of the first comprehensive maps of the United States in 1796; it "represented the first clear cartographic break in European-dominated map making and introduced a new, more distinctly American style of cartography to the United States". In 1804, Bradley drew this map of American post roads and post offices, spanning the Orleans Territory (now Louisiana) in the southwest to Maine in the northeast. The hand-colored map measures 98 by 132 centimeters (39 in × 52 in). Map credit: Abraham Bradley Jr. Recently featured: Red-billed gull Government House, Baku Purple roller Archive More featured pictures

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2022

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Arbitration

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Re: Hatted post

I think it's a bit odd that you would ask me to un-hat that IP's post considering the discussion directly above it which explicitly endorsed hatting uncivil and trolly commentary, but I did as you asked. WaltCip-(talk) 12:32, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Nathaniel Lyon and mustard

A bit of an obscure topic, but I'm a bit doubtful of this old addition. I just finished reading Phillips' bio of Lyon, and noted no reference to mustard whatsoever (although it does mention a love of candy). The sources I can find mentioning this online I largely suspect to be pulling the fact from here. Pinging Donner60 in case they've read anything on this subject as well.

I'm hoping at some point this summer when I am less busy with work to re-work Lyon's article - it has several problems. As to General Nathaniel Lyon camped near Windsor, Missouri (southeast of Kansas City) in 1861. The small settlement is almost abandoned now, but had a postmaster until 1901. - I've been to the linked Windsor, and it is most certainly not "almost abandoned" and I do believe it still has a post office. According to a witness General Lyon was killed by a soldier named John Morgan after he was completely surrounded by Confederate soldiers. He said "The bravest man I ever saw was General Lyon. After he was completely surrounded, and pulled off of his horse, he picked up rocks and fought with thousands of men around him. He struck Will Morgan in the face with a rock, and John Morgan shot him with an old-fashioned horse pistol, killing him appears to be the garbled recollections of old age, as no scholarly source I have ever read agrees with this whatsoever.

I also find it a bit concerning that Lyon's article doesn't mention his pre-Mexican War court martial for excessive cruelty in punishing a drunken subordinate or his machinations to get his superior at Ft. Riley removed. I'm hoping work lets off enough this summer for me to take this up as a project. Hog Farm _Talk 03:49, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

@BusterD and Hog Farm:. I did not need to look it up anywhere because the mustard edit was obviously bogus. I deleted the bogus paragraph from the Nathaniel Lyon article, which had a citation needed tag from 2007, after finding the following: The IP editor who added it had 7 edits. The first corrected a misspelled word so the first edit was not vandalism, probably a test or smokescreen. The unreferenced mustard edit was added to Nathaniel Lyon, Battle of Wilson's Creek (deleted 18 days later) and Jennifer Lopez (reverted as vandalism 5 minutes later). Another one of the IP's edits added this to IBM Blue Gene: "When this occurs, human beings will become obsolete. Blue Gene /Q will take over the running of the planet, and human beings will be relegated to a zoo-like existence." It was reverted 17 minutes later. An unreferenced edit to Stollen: "In America, the best stollen available comes from Wisconsin" was reverted the next day. This edit to Salma Hayek in 2006, the last of the IP's edits: "At the 2005 Oscars, Ms. Hayek was easily the most beautiful on the red carpet" lasted 5 hours. Obvious vandal or troll. I've seen this type of thing before: See Misplaced Pages:List of hoaxes on Misplaced Pages/George K. Broomhall. My hoax report is on the article talk page. The article lasted 11.46 years and was one of the top five longest lasting hoax articles at the time. It has slipped down the list to 42nd now if I counted correctly. Donner60 (talk) 04:48, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	For being the best at offering advice to struggling users. I hope one day I can be like you. Scorpions13256 (talk) 02:19, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022

Hello BusterD,

Backlog status

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 at the end of May.

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

Backlog drive

A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.

TIP – New school articles

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Misplaced Pages's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.

Misc

There is a new template available, {{NPP backlog}}, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:

Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 15820 articles, as of 18:00, 29 December 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot

There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.

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Red River

I was just thinking the other day that I didn't have a campaign study on the Red River campaign (although I did borrow and read a copy of Johnson's Politics and Cotton several years ago). Any recommendations on what a good one-volume treatment of the campaign would be? I've got Kerby's Kirby Smith's Confederacy but that's a much broader work than just Red River. Hog Farm _Talk 01:26, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

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The Bugle: Issue CXCIV, June 2022

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 and Nick-D look at four recent works

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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!

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Category:Union state governors has been nominated for renaming

Category:Union state governors has been nominated for 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. User:Namiba 18:43, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Happy adminship anniversary! Hi BusterD! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! CAPTAIN RAJU 06:12, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

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• An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.

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Martin Scorsese request protection

Hello administrator, page about Martin Scorsese have protection but needs label.

Thanks 37.134.249.165 (talk) 19:14, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

Education question (as opposed to the usual bitching)

Greetings, thanks for page protection at the notability policy. I see you cited edit warring and that surprised me. Writings on consensus admit that consensus can be achieved by a back and forth process of editing that accomodates feedback, which is what I did. I boldly floated a change, it was reverted for a reason not based in fact so I restored my changes. Someone else re-reverted it for a really excellent reason, and I first restored my original changes, then added an edit to address the basis for the second revert (which makes the collaborated change even better). You called this edit warring........... I see the evolution of ever-more-excellent description of actual practice. Just to be clear, as I have said in various edit summaries, I am not intending to change practice, only to describe it with greater clarity, especially for newbies. I accept that you see edit warring... may I ask....

Where did I err?

NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 20:19, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

I'd prefer NOT to judge who is acting correctly and who is acting incorrectly, because I want to assume good faith every editor involved is here to build the world's best online encyclopedic resource. What is apparent to an uninvolved admin like myself is that we shouldn't normally evolve policyspace and guidelinespace without discussing good faith disagreements on the relevant talk page. Please hash this out on THAT talk page, not here, and certainly not in live pages, especially ones devoted to guidance. BusterD (talk) 20:25, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

OK, and FYI, the other ed seems happy with both the process and result, based on our sidebar at User_talk:North8000#Thanks_for_the_list_revert NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 03:12, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

Notice of noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Challenging the NAC at Talk:Technoblade's RfC. Thank you. - Aoidh (talk) 17:13, 21 July 2022 (UTC)