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Yo Ho Ho

Doug Weller 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.

November 2017

• Copied from my talk page where it was added by User:Fishnagles in appreciation of my removal of spam that they were adding to Charles Manson.

Hello, I'm Fishnagles. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks.

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Misplaced Pages.

Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Supporting Indian Misplaced Pages Program resource distribution

In 2017 - 2018, the Wikimedia Foundation and Google working in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India chapter (WMIN) and user groups will pilot a program encouraging Misplaced Pages communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages. This program (Code name: Project Tiger) will:

(a) Support active and experienced Misplaced Pages editors through the donation of laptops and stipends for internet access and

(b) Sponsor a language-based contest that aims to address existing Misplaced Pages content gaps.

The objective of the program is to provide laptops and internet stipends for existing editors who need support to contribute more actively. 50 basic model Acer Chromebooks and Internet stipends for 100 contributors are available for distribution. Provided resources are the sole property of the beneficiaries and should be used for the betterment of the movement.

If you're an active Wikimedian, and interested to receive support from this project, please apply. It will take around 10 minutes of your time, and will ask descriptive questions about your contribution to Indic Wikimedia projects.

• Apply at: Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program#Apply for support
• Last date for submitting applications is 11th February 2018, 11:59 IST.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:12, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Eyes sought...

In light of this and this edit, it may be a quite good idea to convert the block into an indef per NOTHERE.~ Winged Blades 16:00, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Will take a look later today (if no one gets to them before then). --regentspark (comment) 16:04, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

blocked. it is hard to find an edit of this user that hasn't been reverted. --regentspark (comment) 22:00, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks:)~ Winged Blades 14:10, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

No worries. Wondering if is similar?--regentspark (comment) 14:12, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Likely no.Relatively more competent, in my experience.~ Winged Blades 14:15, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

ok. Thanks! --regentspark (comment) 14:19, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

mail

-- Dlohcierekim (talk) 06:49, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

See also this comment, and this deletion. Not very promising signs, to say the least... See also WP:OWNTALK:

the purpose of user talk pages is to draw the attention or discuss the edits of a user. Misplaced Pages is not a social networking site, and all discussion should ultimately be directed solely toward the improvement of the encyclopedia. User talk pages must serve their primary purpose, which is to make communication and collaboration among editors easier. Editors who refuse to use their talk page for these purposes are violating the spirit of the talk page guidelines, and are not acting collaboratively.

Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 07:32, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

@Joshua Jonathan: I think you are trying to provoke him. Whether or not the TBAN remains will require input from RP. Thanks, we got this. -- Dlohcierekim (talk) 07:38, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Okay. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 08:27, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

@Dlohcierekim: let me add, though, that MSW's block is not a green card to undo any and all of her edits. Edits made by socks of users who are indef site-banned may be 'routineously undone', but that's not the case with AVC/MSW: AVC was not blocked when MSW started editing, nor is AVC blocked indef now. Also, MSW was not the only editor with whom Js82 run into trouble, as can be seen from the link which I provided, and which he deleted right away. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 11:01, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Indus Valley civilisation

Hi, RegentsPark, and apologies for undoing your recent edit to the above mentioned article. I am going after the IP editor with a warning and encouragement to cite sources and leave edit summaries.--Quisqualis (talk) 21:47, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

No worries. Thanks for the note. --regentspark (comment) 21:55, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

FYI on new ArbCom procedure

Just wanted you make sure you're aware that ArbCom recently enacted a change to DS procedures requiring admins to post an editnotice when imposing page-level restrictions. (The procedure forbids enforcement of page-level sanctions that don't have an editnotice.) This doesn't seem to affect the recent block of TripWire, because WP:ARBPIA has its own directly-authorized 1RR that isn't subject to those new procedures, but I thought I should let you know so that any future sanctions aren't invalidated. Thanks! Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 04:35, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Question...

...On something that doesn't need to be put up with. Can comments like these warrant a block or other similar sanction, especially in light of WP:ARBIPA? Reason I'd like to inquire is the user is out on a barrage of personal attacks, mud-slinging and unprovoked uncivil comments all over that ANI, and it's not the first one. So far the admins haven't jumped in to sort out the WP:SOUP. I've left a note on their talk, but I'd like to take your two cents so I can appropriately escalate should there be a future reference. Thanks and regards, Mar4d (talk) 17:34, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

And this I'd say is the nail in the coffin. Mar4d (talk) 17:46, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

• Hi RP, can you close that bloody thread please? It will go on and on otherwise. You can read the first five lines and you will know what it is all about. Cheers, Kautilya3 (talk) 22:54, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

  Someone will doubtless close it sooner or later. It does seem that we're better off without that editor. Mar4d, I'll drop a warning on Lorstakings talk page. They shouldn't be dredging up old sock reports. But, honestly, you should just let it go because the editor you're defending doesn't seem defensible. (Adding) I don't think ARBIPA is applicable here since this is a behavioral issue being discussed on ANI rather than something directly related. --regentspark (comment) 23:03, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Can you please sort out this madness . A user with 80-something edits in 4 years turns up on this longstanding article, adding "victory" to the infobox of an article on an ongoing military conflict. There is also evidence that he's causing disruption on other similar articles, and he's not a new user. As always, there's the edit warring and same crowd of users reinstating the POV. Mar4d (talk) 14:12, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

AE

Two reports within 24 hours, one against Willard84 and the second one on me now. The former appears to have been initiated by a user who was otherwise inactive for weeks. Can I ask, if this is not a WP:WITCHHUNT, what exactly this comes under? Regrettably, I may not even have the time to respond fully owing to real life commitments. However, the barge of mudslinging (from predictably, the same group of users) is going to be imminent. I have no hopes of positive let alone constructive outcome coming from these vain exercises. Laughably, half of the complaint appears to be focused on how I apparently hurt the feelings of MapSGV, who's just been topic banned for 6 months. Mar4d (talk) 04:54, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

• AE against Willard84 is filed because he was causing disruption on multiple namespaces on same days and the reporting user seems to be actively editing and that is contrary to Mar4d's miscalculation above. In short words, Willard84 is himself responsible for it.

It is better if we only focus on the report against Mar4d. Major point is that this report wouldn't have been filed if the report against MapSGV had been procedurally closed since it is filed by a user who was and still going through a highly convincing SPI,(noted master is topic banned) per WP:G5 or if there was no socking then MapSGV as well as Mar4d, filer, and others (if possible) had to be reminded about commenting only on content and not contributors, either way the report was not sanctionable at all. Also read statement from GoldenRing. Issue is with unilateral actions of Sandstein that are not only out of scope and standards of AE but also contrary to WP:BEFOREBLOCK, and they clearly seems to be the creating more problems now. I am more worried about tomorrow if we are going to see potential long term editors blocked/banned over trivial issues.

And whether Mar4d would be T-banned/blocked or not, still there is no reason to justify Sandstein's actions against MapSGV. Furthermore, I am sure that RegentsPark is also aware of the history of Sandstein's actions related to AE reports as described by many other editors here(a controversy that occurred this year), and it won't be mind-boggling to say that Sandstein can make wrong decisions. Lorstaking (talk) 12:17, 4 March 2018 (UTC)