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Thank you for standing for arbitrator. I am far away from it all (travel, mourning), not in the mood, so just an informal question you can answer or ignore:

What does this 2024 DYK tell you about infoboxes for classical composers in 2024? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:26, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Those articles don't, in and of themselves, tell me a lot about infoboxes, other than that most of them have infoboxes. Quick power ranking on their hair, though.
  1. Franz Schreker - Off center widows peak over male-pattern baldness. Wild wings on the sides. Combined with the expression he really communicates "intense Austrian composer"
  2. Alexander von Zemlinsky - always maximum respect for a pompadour
  3. Arnold Schoenberg - I'll always believe that Picard was the best captain, and this haircut communicates that. Middle of the road though, as the default bald guy cut
  4. Gustav Mahler - trying to pull off the "genius that doesn't care about his hair" look, but Schreker did it much better
  5. Erich Wolfgang Korngold - looks like he's going to a job interview at a bank
ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:56, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
story · music · places
Thank you for loooking! - November was rich in sadness and happiness for me, expressed in music. - You may be too young (on WP) to know that infoboxes are a declared contentious topic, - sorry that my question was unclear. Do you think they still deserve the label. I found one candidate so far who looked into the matter and didn't stay at the surface, Simonm223. There are two composers on the Main page today, Siegfried Thiele and Aaron Copland. I find the response of my friend Jerome Kohl to a question on Copland's article talk promising. What do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:11, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Having closed around a dozen infobox RFCs, I think they're still fairly contentious. The CTOP designation serves to let people know they have to be on their best behavior which is important when dealing with an issue that is the subject of strong disagreement. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:45, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
I wonder when you closed those, because I don't see many discussions anymore. Most classical composers today get an infobox without a discussion. Mozart was closed in favour of an infobox, for example, almost two years ago, and I haven't seen new arguments since. We still have discussions for a few FAs, usually caused by editors who have no idea of a conflict but get immediately treated as infobox warriors, - that's what I see. - Today's story comes from a DYK about a concert that fascinated me, and you can listen! For my taste, the hook has too little music - I miss the unusual scoring and the specific dedication - but it comes instead with a name good for viewcount. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:58, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
Today, listen to Sequenza XIV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:43, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
On the Main page today Jean Sibelius on his birthday. Listening to Beethoven's Fifth from the opening of Notre-Dame de Paris. The discussion is still on the Sibelius, ending with that he was playing in a league with Beethoven then, in 2018 ;) - We sang in choirs today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:09, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
Listen today to the (new) Perplexities after Escher. - Congratulations to being elected! Could you look at Samuel Barber and tell me if you miss something in his infobox? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:40, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
Listen today to Beethoven's 3rd cello sonata, on his birthday - it was a hook in the 2020 DYK set when his 250th birthday was remembered. I picked a recording with Antônio Meneses, because he was on my sad list this year, and I was in Brazil (see places), and I love his playing. - I can report happily that the Barber situation was resolved.--Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:04, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
I come to fix the cellist's name, with a 10-years-old DYK and new pics - look for red birds --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:15, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

WP:HOUNDING, and enforcing policies and guidelines

Apologies for bothering you on your talk page, but I was wondering if you could spare some advice. I am leaving the name of the editor this is about off intentionally.

I had a dispute with a user around a year or so ago who said that they didn't need to follow WP:V, essentially. This wasn't a new user, but a user who has been here for close to 12+ years and who had been warned several times for their edits by other users (no admin warnings from what I remember)

So I went over several of their older edits at the time and realized that they would insert material with citations that didn't mention what was added to the article or said something entirely different, insert links to primary documents in BLP articles, insert links to piracy sites containing pirated software, just a whole mess of things.

I've tried not to hound them since I firmly believe everyone deserves peace when editing here (within reason), but it has drawn their past edits into question. I don't want to go through and edit 75+ edits of theirs for not following correct policies, since as a regular editor that would certainly annoy me. I have for the most part only edited five or less of their edits in that year time frame but am curious when this should be brought to ANI, or if it's better to just let them go about their editing. I occasionally check their edits to make sure there isn't anything super terrible that justifies immediate removal but feel like this is borderline harassment of them, and wanted to ask the proper steps.

Thank you for whatever advice you can give! Awshort (talk) 17:24, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

If you've spoken with them without positive results and the behavior is continuing ANI is certainly an option, or AE if their editing is in a WP:CTOP and they're aware of the CTOP designation. Really, though, how you handle it is up to how you feel, and if you think it's worth whatever can of worms could be opened. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:07, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

awshort does harass and needs to stop stalking me and anyone else. They are not a victim and seldom change anything of value. I saw my “targeted killings” edit was reverted because the allegation was that my sources which said exact dollar amounts of $15,000 and $30,000 paid by Iranian proxies to kill people in the west was alleged to not be accurate. Twillisjr (talk) 00:39, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

@Twillisjr I removed that in mid November. Since you weren't tagged to this conversation, and no user was mentioned by name, what brought you here?
Awshort (talk) 01:57, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
@Awshort I am here in an act of self defense from you. Twillisjr (talk) 02:59, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
@Twillisjr That didn't answer the question - you weren't pinged, and I wasn't specific on who I was talking about. So unless you are following my edits, I'm unsure why you came here or why you specifically believe this is in regards to you.
Awshort (talk) 04:09, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
ScottishFinnishRadish Can you please respond to the edit war being started by Awshort (who is yet wiki stalking me again)? We are having a dispute on this article page: Internal affairs (law enforcement). Thank you. Twillisjr (talk) 23:10, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
I'll give you a bit of a third opinion. The lead should follow the body, and there is no other mention of lamplighter in the article. It would make more sense to add that information, and also information on whistleblowers which is also absent, to the article before adding it to the lead. Looking at the importance of that information in the context of the article is also important for deciding if it should be in the lead.
This is really a run of the mill editing dispute so you should just follow WP:DR. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:22, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
@Twillisjr And disputes are fixed with discussion. I asked you for a reliable source that isn't one person refering to himself as such, provided policy based reasoning on why your edit was reverted, and provided alternative article suggestions where your text (with proper sourcing) would fit better than an unrelated article with it randomly thrown in.
I would also suggest reading WP:HA#NOT It is also not harassment to track a user's contributions for policy violations.
You never did answer the above question on what brought you here, but the edits I have reverted or tried to fix of yours in the past have been either highly problematic policy violations (you linking to a private data dump which could carry legal implications for the site, you referring to BLP subjects as pedophiles without proper sourcing stating the same, a few similar instances) or you ignoring WP:V and using this as your rationale.
Awshort (talk) 23:24, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
Awshort The content fits, but not in the lead per ScottishFinnishRadish. You may now determine where in the article the content belongs and re-add it. The issue here is the quickness to revert and not improve. My first edit had an allegation of bad sources, and you alleged on my talk page that it was nearly impossible to find a better source. So, I showed you with a book citation how easy it can be to improve something without hitting the “revert button” and complaining on a talk page. Now, you may demonstrate your dedication to teamwork on Misplaced Pages by finding my research and correct citation a proper place on the article. Hope this is a lesson for you in good Misplaced Pages etiquette. Twillisjr (talk) 23:33, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
I didn't say that it fits in the article, just that it shouldn't be in the lead unless it is in the article, and the first step would be to work it into the article. If you want something in an article it is your responsibility to find the appropriate sourcing to demonstrate that it is WP:DUE for inclusion. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:38, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
@Twillisjr As I said, I attempted to improve it and find better sources which supported the text, not that it was "nearly impossible" as you put it. Your book citation showed that one person called himself that, and was still not valid for what you were trying to add to an unrelated article.
There have been several instances of you adding random tidbits of somewhat-related-but-only-barely information to articles which don't necessarily help readers understand the overall topic any better, and other editors in the past have pointed this out to you over a period of several years. In the instances I've seen in the past (as in, not involving me personally) it usually involves you telling them you found the information, it helps the article, and they need to add it back. Misplaced Pages is not an indiscriminate collection of information; that is policy WP:INDISCRIMINATE. As is consensus being how things change in articles (or as you refer to it above, "complaining on a talk page"). Not all material necessarily improves an article and just being factually true doesn’t automatically mean it should be included or stay in an article. Once material is disputed, the responsibility falls on the person who wants the material included in the article to obtain consensus that it should stay in (with no consensus usually resulting in the material being left out). And lastly, your responses to other users when you are upset/annoyed with them come off as extremely condescending. Please work on how you talk to other people; that is part of policy (WP:AVOIDUNCIVIL) and has been mentioned to you in the past by several users including an admin.
Regarding the information which started this whole reactivation of an old discussion - I looked last night for a more suitable alternative for the material and it appears in both Frank Serpico § Retirement and activism as well as

Whistleblowing § Advocacy for protection, with the second link also mentioning the Lamp Lighter Project. Since there is no mention of Internal Affairs in the few sources that mention the term or connection between IA and the term, it seems this has been fixed on the content level at least by ending up in a suitable set of articles.

Awshort (talk) 21:17, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Please Re-open Requested move 6 December 2024

Discussion of changing "Gaza genocide" to "Gaza genocide accusations" was closed and archived before adequate discussion could take place. Please re-open the discussion and restore the archived comments, including my own:

  • “Genocide” refers to the physical destruction of a group that has been targeted on the basis of its identity. Immense suffering and civilian toll in Gaza have resulted from the war started by Hamas, and from specific actions by Hamas that put Gazan civilians in harm’s way.
  • Hamas does not separate fighters from civilians in its Gaza health ministry numbers. Hamas does not specify whether they died because of attacks carried out by the IDF or because of intentional or unintentional actions by Hamas or other Palestinian armed groups; for example, the explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City was caused by a failed rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
  • Israel’s goal is to destroy Hamas, not the Palestinian people or the Palestinian population of Gaza. When Israeli officials have made statements reflecting callous disregard for Palestinian civilian lives, they have been disciplined.
  • The goal of Hamas is to wipe Israel and Jews off the map, an example of genocidal intent. Israel directs its force at legitimate military targets, which Hamas has intentionally placed under and within civilians’ homes, hospitals, mosques, and schools.
  • The Israeli military sends Arabic-language warnings to Gazans prior to its airstrikes on military targets, and indicates routes for Palestinian civilians to relocate. Hamas has repeatedly called on Palestinian civilians to ignore Israel’s warnings about impending strikes and reportedly forced civilians to remain in the vicinity of military objectives, using them, like its hostages from Israel, as human shields.
  • Hamas has continued to launch missiles into Israel, not from military bases, as international law dictates, but from civilian areas in Gaza. International law allows legitimate military targets to be attacked when the anticipated military advantage from the attack exceeds the expected civilian harm. Hamas has inflated the number of civilian casualties. Harm to Gazan civilians is a horrible outcome of war, but it is not genocide.

Allthemilescombined1 (talk) 15:41, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Allthemilescombined1, for interest, why do you appear to believe that it is okay to use talk pages in the topic area for what appears to be advocacy and the expression of your personal views about the real world? I don't understand why this happens so often in the topic area or what can be done to ensure that editors don't need to filter it out when they read talk pages or participate in consensus forming discussions. Sean.hoyland (talk) 16:13, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
I'm saving everyone the time of coming to the same conclusion and lowering the engagement at the next discussion even more. Wait until something significant has changed or a more appreciable amount of time has passed. There will be more outside input and a better representative consensus of things at that point. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 01:44, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

Please take extra attention to this recent ECU whose edits to I-P articles look rather deceptive to me. -- Sameboat - 同舟 (talk · contri.) 00:55, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

References

  1. "Gaza: Findings on October 17 al-Ahli Hospital Explosion". Human Rights Watch. 2023-11-26. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
  2. Williams, Dan (2023-11-05). "Netanyahu suspends Israeli minister over Gaza nuclear comment". Reuters. Retrieved 2024-12-08.

Condolences er I mean congrats.... you gon' be an arb

Looks like you got in, right in the meaty part of the pack. I will not be joining you. That's fine though, you got a hell of a great group coming in with you, I'm suddenly far less worried about the committee's ability to get shit done. Just Step Sideways 00:07, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

  • Congrats. As reward for dealing with the thankless tasks you get... even more onerous tasks! No, seriously, congratulations and I hope you take it as something of an antidote to all of the criticism that you now enjoy a mandate from the community to clean things up even more. Andre🚐 00:21, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
  • Congrats to the Raddish! You’ve come an incredibly long way and have a lot to be proud of. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 02:21, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
(Extends my congrats to you) Happy tears yet? You have a right to. Now, with that out of the way, my recommendation for your first order of business as part of the ArbCom: What are your thoughts about KevinL's 4 motions for improving Arbitrator workflows (which include Correspondence clerks, WMF staff support, Coordinating arbitrators and grants for corresponding clerks)? 2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 02:34, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
I've been thinking about that, but I don't have any solid input. It's difficult to comment on how to fix a process you've never seen up close. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:15, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
First root vegetable Arb? Congratulations friend. Star Mississippi 02:57, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
@Star Mississippi: We're making plans for an eventual root vegetable majority :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 14:25, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
That arbcom will be the best ever! at remaining edible when kept in a cellar over winter ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:27, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
Thank you, everybody, for the congratulations. Here's to hoping I don't bollocks the whole things up. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:13, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
You'll be accused of it regardless. And in case nobody told you, next month is a sort of hazing ritual where tons of banned users try their luck with the new committee, so enjoy that. Just Step Sideways 19:20, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
You managed to swim through the rapids of PIA, so I'm sure that the rest will be a doddle. Well done. M.Bitton (talk) 19:21, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
A raise in blood pressure, guaranteed.-- Ponyo 17:36, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
I know WMF has a legal assistance fund, what about medical assistance? ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:38, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
That's an option, but they only dispense one thing. You need to be available 24/7 now!-- Ponyo 18:06, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
If it comes with something else I might just be able to make it work. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:14, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Revdel inquiry re BLPN

Greetings! At WP:BLPN we have this from an upset subject whose mind works differently and saw fit to name names of other presumably living people. Is it worth a redaction? Along with a tall glass of calm the hell down for OP? This seems like someone who could maybe be a wider problem, per her post. I'm looking at WP:Articles for deletion/Judy Singer and missing User:DGG... thanks for your thoughts. JFHJr (㊟) 00:07, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

I don't have time to dig into this right now, but I'll check it tomorrow if no one else has handled it ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 01:47, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
JFHJr, I don't think this needs a revdel, but I did redact the names. Looks like there are some eyes on the article now. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 13:16, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
Ossum, possum. Thanks again. And congratulations on arbor-trader stuff. Trees are friends. JFHJr (㊟) 22:28, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
I've lost two of my apple trees in recent years, so I'm hoping with my election I'll be better equipped to take care of them. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:30, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

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Question about a couple blocks

I'm looking at a bunch of old talk page archives and blocks for a ... project (we all have our hobbies) and I saw that, in June, you blocked two accounts for sockpuppetry User:7goldfishglory and User:CG52110. The problem is... I don't think they were socking. Basically, a somewhat popular youtuber made a series about micronations, and then made one of his own for fun. It's called "Ironland" and it's not notable by any stretch of the imagination, but it was a pretty popular series (Youtube kept trying to push me into watching it, and the Romanian government's tiktok acccount had some fun with it). It's hardly surprising that a few fans tried to write a Misplaced Pages article for it. (Again, we all have our hobbies) I poked around on reddit and a few fans tried to work on a draft together, but they seemed to accept the decline. Somebody made one on the micronation wiki and fandom, in the end, thank goodness. But that still leaves the issue of these blocks. I know they were made in good faith, and to be fair, I can't see the draft- but I do have additional context.

CG52110 has filed several unblock requests, admitting they had one other account, and promising to abandon its use- but because they were tagged as a sockpuppet in control of at least nine accounts, they're not getting unblocked anytime soon if ever. As far as anybody working in cat:unblock is concerned, not only did they sock, they're also lying. One admin even accused them of being the person to create the micronation- which knowing what I know about the YouTube series, is highly unlikely.

The other block, of 7goldfishglory, is also something I'd like to ask you about. They made a draft, it got rejected, they asked why- and then came back to say they did their research, understood why, and that they'd wait until it's more well-known. Which, at the end of the day, is sort of what we want to see. They were acting in good faith and they were respectful of our norms, once they realized what they were. I'm not seeing anything blockworthy. They could have used the exact same text in their draft, in fact, and I'd merely assume that they copied it from another fan, or the micronation wiki or something. Bad in terms of copyright, but, again, not blockworthy until they do it twice. They haven't asked to be unblocked, but to be fair, but if they're used to dealing with reddit or discord mods, they probably thought "why bother?" and disengaged.

Anyway, just thought I'd ask to see if my context helped, or if you had any context I'd missed. And, because I've seen your talk page archives and I don't want to feel left out: <insert long, vaguely off-topic ARBPIA-themed rant/interrogation here>. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 22:37, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

I am aware that, normally, nine accounts show up to write an article about an obviously non-notable subject is a pretty clean sockpupping block, 98% of the time. But that remaining 2% of the time.... GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 22:50, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
The short answer is that WP:SOCK also covers WP:MEAT, specifically A new user who engages in the same behavior as another user in the same context, and who appears to be editing Misplaced Pages solely for that purpose, may be subject to the remedies applied to the user whose behavior they are joining.
I blocked a lot of accounts creating ironland drafts, and after salting accounts were recreating the draft at the same unsalted title. That, combined with matching prose, led me to the conclusion that it was sock or meatpuppetry. Quite a few of the blocks were noted as sock or meat. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:17, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
Yeah, don't worry, I do actually know those guidelines, and I completely get how, with the evidence and knowledge you had, you came to the decision you did. WP:MEAT is very useful for when you just can't quite prove an account is socking or canvassing, but they're causing just enough low-grade disruption that we'd rather be rid of them. I'm not fully sure that applies to all the accounts here though, that's what I'm trying to get at. Some of them, yeah - but 7goldfishglory was blocked after they went out of their way to clarify that they understood why the draft wasn't going to be accepted, and said they'd stop working on it until they found sources that could prove its notability, so I don't exactly know what their block was meant to prevent. At worst, they're a fan of the Youtuber who probably saw a fully formed article at the micronation wiki and copied it over in violation of our copyright policies. Your call though. I just think blocks like these are the equivalent of blocking everybody who tries their hand at creating something related to BFDI as an Brandon1998 sock, and that our regular policies of dealing with this kind of stuff - liberal salting and a few polite warnings about what what Misplaced Pages is not - tend to work just fine. Again, YMMV, and I've been known to use quick and dirty solutions like that on occasion. I just figured you'd find an alternative explanation interesting. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 04:09, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

2025 Arbitration Committee

The Arbitration Committee welcomes the following new and returning members following their election by the community. Their two-year terms formally begin on 1 January 2025:

The one-year terms of these members also begin on 1 January 2025:

Upon meeting the Wikimedia Foundation's criteria for access to non-public personal data and signing its corresponding confidentiality agreement, all incoming members will be subscribed to all Committee-managed email lists, assigned the CheckUser and Oversight permissions for use in office, and given access to the CheckUser and Oversight queues on the VRT system.

We also thank our outgoing colleagues, whose terms end on 31 December 2024:

Outgoing members are eligible to retain the CheckUser and Oversight permissions, to remain active on cases accepted before their term ended, and to remain subscribed to the functionaries' and arbitration clerks' mailing lists following their terms on the Arbitration Committee. To that effect:

  • Stewards are requested to remove the permission(s) noted from the following outgoing members, who have not chosen to retain them, after 31 December 2024:
    CheckUser: Firefly, L235
    Oversight: Firefly, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees
  • Outgoing members are eligible to remain active on cases opened before their term ended if they wish. That will be noted on the proposed decision talk page of affected case(s).
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On behalf of the Committee, Sdrqaz (talk) 02:44, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Discuss this at: Misplaced Pages talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard § 2025 Arbitration Committee
Congratulations. Crafterstar (talk) 16:22, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Potential myopia of PIA-centric RSN discussions — thoughts?

I’m sure you’re aware of the recent trend of news outlets being RfCed primarily for PIA-related topics

However, one of the most irritating things about it (apart from, y’know, the very incursion of mud-slingers onto RSN, the taurine tunnel vision of both sides, the non-policy-grounded biases nakedly displayed, and the systematic coordination on at least one side) is that both sides tend to forgo any discussion of the given source for its non-PIA coverage. This is detrimental and inconvenient for the broader editing community because it muddies the waters about the usability of these sources for everything else in this big world we live in.

For example, Al Jazeera tends to take a fairly detached, professional view of Ukraine and certain other hot topics, but at the polar opposite end its quasi-coverage of Qatargate in Europe and the Menendez trial quite frankly puts RT and the Global Times to shame. The nuanced usability assessment that a rational, civil discussion would be likely to produce is instead swept aside by a circus in which the majority is spouting distorted applications of policy while the opposing side basically just does variations on “nuh-uh!”

In another example, I recently argued against the Jerusalem Post being tarred and feathered because of the inevitable effects on its non-PIA coverage and in particular that it could mess with the diversity of the source basket for domestic Israeli politics and society/culture stuff. Oh wait why would they even care

Do you think there’s any grounds to expect forthcoming changes to the situation due to recent formal proceedings at arbcom and AE and stuff, or that there’s any way to help keep project-wide discussions from turning into spillover from the ungodly cesspool that is high-traffic PIA talk pages? I feel like part of the problem is the self-selection of anyone who wants to make big edits in that topic area.

Cheers, RadioactiveBoulevardier (talk) 14:09, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

The short answer is no. The longer answer is nooooooooooooooooooo. As long as the real-world conflict is at high intensity there will be spillover on to en.wiki, and part of that means that there will be an increase in NPOVN, RSN, NOORN, and other spillover from the topic area. The topic area has a great need for these venues of wider participation, both for regular dispute resolution and to establish wider consensus than a local talk page consensus. This does lead to a lot of large discussions, but the recent 1000 word limit sanction should keep things a bit tighter and hopefully avoid huge spirals.
Despite the added stress on venues like RSN, this is Misplaced Pages working as intended. There are real conflicts over the use of these sources, and rather than have editors argue back and forth on an article talk page they need to be able to seek a community consensus. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:44, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
Good point. Actually, I get the impression that it’s mostly the same set of editors who participate in such discussions even though it’s on a noticeboard.
My surmise is that the toxicity of the topic area is still turning off general-purpose editors even in project-wide spaces. RadioactiveBoulevardier (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2024 (UTC)
The data suggests that the topic area is more attractive to editors than Misplaced Pages in general. I don't know whether there is also more participation in noticeboard discussions related to PIA compared to the background level. It is not possible to say without measuring the background level. But it's clear that noticeboard discussions are not sampling the editor population very effectively. This might also be true of discussions unrelated to PIA. So, it could be related to systemic problems with participation in general rather than something topic area specific. Sean.hoyland (talk) 09:57, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations!

To differentiate from everyone else congratulating you on the promotion, I decided to do it in your three languages.

  • Scottish: Mealaibh ur naidheachd!
  • Finnish: Onnittelut!
  • and Radish er, Wikipedian:

(I just looked at the list of articles you have on your user page, and hoped you might appreciate having them illustrated. I do that occasionally.) The last isn't perfect, but better than what was on the article already, I hope you'll agree. BTW, any objection if we move that to just Linda Morra, since there isn't anyone else in Misplaced Pages with that name that we need to disambiguate with the middle initial? --GRuban (talk) 19:14, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks a ton, and go for it. I rescued those all from WP:WPWIR declined drafts so they got stuck with whatever name they were created at. Same with Rosetta Lawson which was at Rosetta E. Lawson, but I actually remembered to move it. Again, thanks, I really appreciate the images. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 19:28, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
Speaking of. I would hate to break it, since it's a GA and all, and my skills are more in finding pics than in editing them, but what do you think of:
  • before before
  • after after
? --GRuban (talk) 19:32, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
I think the after is a bit over-processed, which makes the image artifacts stand out. Somewhere in the middle would probably be an improvement. What really irks my taters is that I know there are other images of her in old newspapers and other documents, but I haven't been able to dig them up. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 19:38, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
Better? (I used the same file, so if you don't see any change, hit shift-reload.) --GRuban (talk) 19:41, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
Yeah, that's better. Keeps the skin tone from getting washed out while still improving the visible details. Thanks again! ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 19:48, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
Great. Now the second part, finding more images. I think I did that. Here are a few versions to choose from. Say which you like, or whether you want me to try to take off the oval frame.
  • Fannie J. Henderson ; Fannie Elliott ; Cora Everette ; Rebecca J. Carter ; Annie Witherspoon ; Carrie Morgan ; Rosetta E. Lawson, 1906 Fannie J. Henderson ; Fannie Elliott ; Cora Everette ; Rebecca J. Carter ; Annie Witherspoon ; Carrie Morgan ; Rosetta E. Lawson, 1906
  • Rosetta E. Lawson Rosetta E. Lawson
  • Rosetta E. Lawson, brightened, de-spot-ified Rosetta E. Lawson, brightened, de-spot-ified
However that leads to an awkward bit, which is why I'm not replacing the image in the article quite yet. I'm reasonably sure this is the subject of the article. However, your image had middle initial C, and this one, and your article, has middle initial E. Er ... was that a typo? If not, are you quite sure that first image was the subject of your article ? --GRuban (talk) 20:40, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
Her maiden name was Coakley, so I probably just mixed it up when titling the image. I think the original image is better because it captures her "I don't take bullshit" expression. I think the lightened image would be great in the advocacy section. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 22:03, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
I see you put them both in, thanks. I made https://commons.wikimedia.org/Category:Rosetta_Lawson and gave her a middle name, cited: Evelyn. --GRuban (talk) 15:06, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Thanks again for your work, it's appreciated. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 15:13, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Your evidence at PIA 5

Your example:

the link is dead/wrong? Huldra (talk) 22:42, 15 December 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. Should be fixed. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:26, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Revdel question...

So, what should we do about revdel if the plot section on a film's article was a copyvio since the article's creation? - Adolphus79 (talk) 22:47, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Sorted. You had me worried, but the article only had like 9 edits. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 22:56, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
That's what I was expecting to happen, that's why I just left you a message and then left a copyvio warning on the user's talk... - Adolphus79 (talk) 05:31, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

A request for block an user

Hello, I'm Quangminhvilla, one of the editor on Misplaced Pages. I hear that you are one of the admins on Misplaced Pages, so I want to ask you for help. In the few months before, the article 2023 AFC Asian Cup had an user name RealLifed was vandalism the article so many. Since the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, there was no third place match. But he always edited the third and the fourth ranking on the 2023 article, which lead to many user have to reverted the article many times. He always said that the reason was he used it from the AFC website, although there was no source about it. I have already gave him a warning for this, but he said threatly for me and always said by using CAPSLOCK to tell many user when they said to him politely. I think this user not only used incorrectly sources but he also one of the dangerous user that threaten anyone. So this message today is can you help me block this user please? Because if anyone warning to him about it, he will not change and still violated to them. Thank you for reading this message. Hope you have a good time during this week. Quangminhvilla (talk) 07:46, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Io Saturnalia!

Io, Saturnalia!
Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and distraction-free. Ealdgyth (talk) 15:26, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
Happy Holidays to you and yours as well. I hope you don't have any winter problems on the farm. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:34, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Another possible 1RR violation

Once again I may be wrong here, but I think this is a 1RR violation: https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Mohammed_Deif&diff=prev&oldid=1263475889

If so, can you take appropriate action?

Thanks. Raskolnikov.Rev (talk) 18:34, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

I've remedied the violation and made them aware of the CTOP sanctions on the topic. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:51, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Possible WP:TBAN violation by Bohemian Baltimore

Good morning,

I have just reverted an edit by Bohemian Baltimore, who has a topic ban on self-ID articles for BLPs, broadly construed. This editor has made a number of small edits that seem to test/skirt the TBAN, with the text I reverted today seeming to be a more obvious violation of the ban. The editor disputes whether this applies in this case.

Details as follows:

  • The editor edited the intro to the Taíno article to change the wording around how these people are identified.

It might be that these don't fall under the "broadly construed" clause, but I thought it worth raising the issue now before a future edit does. I saw that you implemented the ban, so thought I'd reach out to you first. Lewisguile (talk) 07:06, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

@Bohemian Baltimore, pinging you for transparency. Hopefully we can get an answer. Lewisguile (talk) 07:10, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
@Lewisguile There is no testing or skirting. I was told to stay away from BLPs related to self-identification and citizenship due to controversy over Native American BLPs. And that is what I have done; stayed away from editing those topics on Indigenous BLPs. None of those edited articles is a BLP. I am not aware of any total ban on editing Indigenous topics. If there is, I was not informed. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 07:17, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
Self-ID is a major topic of most of these articles. Or are least of the edits you have made. It's worth noting that some of the info is also inaccurate—Taíno groups in Puerto Rico and the USVI are in non-sovereign territory (i.e., colonies), so they have no route for formal recognition. Your creation of the Taíno heritage groups article and the related Category:Taíno heritage groups therefore seems oddly WP:POINTY. Lewisguile (talk) 07:24, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
I'm sorry, but this seems like grasping for straws. If a topic ban for BLPs were to include non-BLPs, I would have been told this. Innocuous edits like creating a parent category for Nahua or adding Taino to the Native American identity article, in addition to not having anything to do with BLPs, doesn't even have anything to do with citizenship or self-identification. The information on the heritage group article, also, was not inaccurate. Not that that's relevant to the BLP question though. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 07:42, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
If I am misinterpreting the decision, then I am happy to apologise. It's entirely possible I'm looking at this too rigidly.
But either way, clarity would be good going forward. It seems to me these articles all have self-ID in common, either as an explicit or implicit element, and often involve the self-ID of people or groups of people.
If these articles are too tangential to the topic to count and it's too non-specific for the BLP element to count, then that's also useful to know for you as well as anyone else. Lewisguile (talk) 07:59, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
@Lewisguile I think it is clear that it is my intent to adhere to the topic ban and that is what I have tried to do since I was T-banned. If we are going to quibble over broadness, then that needs to be clarified by the administrators and then I can adhere to whatever their determination is. But it seems like you are arguing for my topic-ban to be broader than what it was originally stated to be. If the goal posts are going to be moved, well okay, but I need to be informed of where they are now. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 08:15, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
I think we are broadly in agreement that it's helpful to know where the boundaries lie. I read "broadly construed" as meaning anything related to the matter of Indigenous identity. What's a BLP or not is also relatively broadly construed in its own right. If that's not the case, I am happy to retract and strike my comments. Lewisguile (talk) 08:19, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

More edits here:

  • Created the article Taíno heritage groups – using the language of your prior self-ID articles to say these aren't recognised. (Note that Puerto Rico is a colony, not a state, so there is no formal route to recognition.)

Re: BLPs, also see WP:BLPGROUP: A harmful statement about a small group or organization comes closer to being a BLP problem than a similar statement about a larger group; and when the group is very small, it may be impossible to draw a distinction between the group and the individuals that make up the group.

I take your point that some of these are probably not violations, but the point is that they're skirting the issue "broadly construed". As for the Taíno, I have added text to the page you created to clarify. You'll see what I mean. But creating a category to call groups out for not having recognition they cannot obtain does, again, seem to be pointy. Lewisguile (talk) 07:47, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

@Lewisguile So you admit that there probably aren't any violations and everything is only tangentially related if at all, but are still making an issue out of this. Well, that's interesting. The category for Taino heritage groups was actually created before my topic-ban was instituted, not that it matters, because it isn't a BLP anyway. Puerto Rico is a territory, not a "colony". I'm not sure that you are correct that a territory cannot give recognition to a tribe (Why are we debating this here?). But your quibble there is not I didn't give enough context on a newly created article still being worked on, not that there is anything false, because there wasn't. None of the edited articles pertains to "small groups". Name one, if so. It is my understanding that "broadly construed" pertains to BLPs, as I was topic-banned from BLPs. I didn't create the Taino category, by the way, to "call them out". That's a bad-faith accusation. I created the category to make it easier for readers to access articles related to Taino orgs. I think my editing over the past month has demonstrated my intent to adhere to the topic ban, as I have stayed away from the BLPs. I supposed it would be possible to quibble broadly enough to make the argument that any Native-related edits "tangentially" relate to BLPs in some way. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 08:08, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
So you admit that there probably aren't any violations I didn't say that. I said some may be tangential. I stand by statement that it's helpful to get clarification either way, and have offered to apologise if I'm proven wrong.
As for the Taíno stuff, I have added sources at the relevant article. You will see what I mean there. The legal framework for recognition only applies to the 48 contiguous States and Alaska (and the latter only because they brought in specific rules to do that). Puerto Rico and the USVI are non-sovereign territories with limited ability to officially recognise groups, which is why groups from those islands have been pushing the UN to intervene on their behalf. But I agree we can drop that discussion here.
ETA: Also, it's early and I'm particularly grumpy today. I apologise if my tone in general has caused an escalation. Lewisguile (talk) 08:16, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
If you want this looked at in detail I suggest you bring it to WP:AE. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:22, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. Having thought about it some more, I'm happy to leave this for now. I don't have the energy for it and don't want to get into any wikilawyering. @Bohemian Baltimore, I'm sorry for any bother caused. Lewisguile (talk) 15:38, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

A bear for you

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Glad to help. Thanks for the bear, I appreciate any animal in goggles. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:48, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
I wasn't sure what image to use when I made the template, but when I saw this on the commons, I knew it was perfect Cmrc23 ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ 16:55, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
It's very TaleSpin. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:57, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
I can't believe there's no images in that article, surely FUR applies? El Beeblerino 22:35, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
I could probably use dall-e to make sexy Rebecca pictures. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 22:44, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
Given the context, I assumed that link would be about furries on wikipedia! Cmrc23 ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ 16:20, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

User talk:Nicoljaus unblock requests question

you should see the video I got of this, he eventually turned it completely over and tried to see if spinning the wheels would get him access to the sweet, sweet combination of garbage and cat poop within.

I'm not sure what the standard procedure is here, or if there is one, but do you think it would make sense to replace their unblock requests with the "on hold" version so it is immediately clear that this at AE and not something for a single admin to review?

Additional bear provided for your amusement. El Beeblerino 22:32, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, that should get it out of the queue, at least. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 22:41, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
 Done. El Beeblerino 23:57, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
Thank you kindly. Dall-e is doing an okay job making Rebecca images, but I don't think we're allowed to use them. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 00:13, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Question

Hi, could you explain this edit? https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Talk:Zionism&diff=prev&oldid=1260458061

Thank you, IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 01:11, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

An editor was using an LLM to make arguments while falsifying sources so I collapsed some of it, and removed other parts that hadn't been replied to yet. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 01:13, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Seasonal greetings:)

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Thank you very much. Merry Christmas to you and yours as well. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:57, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

Hello ScottishFinnishRadish: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Misplaced Pages. Cheers, AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 02:25, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you kindly and I hope you and yours also have a wonderful holiday season. Hopefully the weather shifts a bit and I'm not stuck with less than no degrees. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 13:45, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
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Revdel request

Hello, got another quick revdel request for you. This revision has already been reverted, but is a copy/paste of here. - Adolphus79 (talk) 02:34, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up, all set. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 02:36, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

IP block

FYI, 83.203.20.206 appears to be a sock for 76.67.115.228 that you blocked, based on the edit to Maté. So far just the one edit. — kwami (talk) 03:04, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

I was wondering if this was the same person. 83.203.20.206 (talk · contribs) Knitsey (talk) 03:08, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
Given the preoccupation with Israel/Hebrew, I would assume so. Though of course conceivably a friend, or just someone who saw the vandalism and decided to do the same. — kwami (talk) 03:34, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
I reported them anyway, and they're blocked. Knitsey (talk) 03:35, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
213.49.236.39 the same. same maybe-Neapolitan edit summaries. so they appear to be IP-hopping. — kwami (talk) 05:26, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Another IP

You interacted on the user talk of 190.219.101.225 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). The IP was a sockpuppet of Alon9393 and is now blocked. Geschichte (talk) 08:54, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

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Merry Christmas to you and yours as well! ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:54, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Editor you blocked for ARBPIA violations

Aren't their latest edits violations? Doug Weller talk 16:46, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Looks that way to me. I'm trying to disengage from arbitration enforcement, though, since I'm now on the committee. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:51, 25 December 2024 (UTC)