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List of gender identity discussions.

Regarding Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Gender_identity/Discussions, you created it as a subpage from the list at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Gender identity, but it was never transcluded, so we ended up with two lists that diverged (though both are only updated intermittently at best.) I've reconciled their displayed content for now but I'm unsure what to do from there, so I thought I would drop you a message; obviously we shouldn't have both, but I'm unsure if you meant to have it transcluded eventually or what. Note that they have also diverged substantially in their formatting somehow. --Aquillion (talk) 08:26, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

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Wandering Vagabond

Hello, my friend need help! regarding an issue one member sees a problem with one than 1 picture in. an article Rose Dione, what are your thoughts, because i see very few (if any) articles relating to actors, musicians etc. as having more than just 1 picture, and not just in infobox section;, most commonly more photos especially next to a filmography as in for example silent film star Leila Hyams — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.42.140.121 (talk) 04:06, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

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Bill Ackman

A heads up I've tagged you in a note at Talk:Bill Ackman.

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Request

Could you please add to this list Living centenarians, Ray Lawler (OBE) (playwright, proper, director and actor), thank-you kindly— Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.42.140.121 (talk)

Nomination of Aftermath of the 2021 United States Capitol attack for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Aftermath of the 2021 United States Capitol attack is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Running for office again

If you don't see me around on wiki a lot anymore, it's because I'm running for office again. Sorry for the inconvenience!! –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 14:24, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

Good luck! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:35, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

Best of luck, MJL! --qedk (t 愛 c) 08:12, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

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TheWikiWizard-June 2021

Hello, MJL! Here is the June 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard.

Wikipedia News

• The IRC channels used for Wikipedia have changed, you can read more on it here. While TWW was aware of this in the last issue, we decided to wait and publish this in this issue, when the issue is not as new any more, and more information has been developed.
• There was quick interruption in editing on Wikipedia, that was to test server switching should an emergency happen, more details can be found here.

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This section was written by CanadianOtaku --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁

• Internet Explorer still thinks freenode is the best IRC service!
• It has been proven that editing the article Cheese while eating Cheese is considered a WP:COI.
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WikiCup 2021 July newsletter

The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:

• The Rambling Man, with 1825 points from 3 featured articles, 44 featured article reviews, 14 good articles, 30 good article reviews and 10 DYKs. In addition, he completed a 34-article good topic on the EFL Championship play-offs.
• Epicgenius, a New York specialist, with 1083 points from 2 featured article reviews, 18 good articles, 30 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
• Bloom6132, with 869 points from 11 DYKs, all with bonus points, and 54 "In the news" items, mostly covering people who had recently died.
• Gog the Mild, with 817 points from 3 featured articles on historic battles in Europe, 5 featured article reviews and 3 good articles.
• Hog Farm, with 659 points from 2 featured articles and 2 good articles on American Civil War battles, 18 featured article reviews, 2 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 4 DYKs.
• BennyOnTheLoose, a snooker specialist and new to the Cup, with 647 points from a featured article, 2 featured article reviews, 6 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 3 DYKs.

In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

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Palmer Report warning

Hi, thanks for the warning. I appreciate it. Isi96 (talk) 06:40, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

I reported the tweet. Isi96 (talk) 06:42, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

@Isi96: Of course! Editor safety is number one priority. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 06:45, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

I live in Sri Lanka, so I don't think they'll be able to do much to harm me, but better safe than sorry. Thanks again! Isi96 (talk) 06:49, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive

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Precious anniversary

Precious

Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:56, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

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Colour categories

Can I suggest you get a bot to do it, rather than manually edit what is probably going to be thousands of templates? You can list the categories at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working. Cheers, Number 57 19:42, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

@Number 57: Sure! If you want to add {{subst:User:MJL/sandbox3}} to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Large#Move, I would be all good with that. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 20:00, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Isn't the large one for when a single category has more than 5,000 articles in it? Number 57 20:51, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

@Number 57: Um, possibly.. I didn't read it that way, but that might be what it is saying (since that'd make more sense). In that event, I would list it at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working#Move like you originally proposed (this is not something I can personally do as a non-admin anyways). –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 20:55, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

OK, I've added them to the working page. Cheers, Number 57 21:01, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Gasparino

that wasn’t my intent just pointing out it’s false and written by someone w an ax to grind not an objective editor— Preceding unsigned comment added by Chuckygasparino (talk • contribs) 20:36, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

@Chuckygasparino: Understood, but you can see why someone might interpret that differently, right? Either way, focus on the content; not the contributor. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 20:39, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Got it Chuckygasparino (talk) 20:46, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

@Chuckygasparino: While I have you here, is your username meant to imply any association with the real life Charles Gasparino? –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 20:47, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

"Weird Russian Singer" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Voting

Hello, you mentioned my "voting" twice on Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:No bigots. It is my understanding that we do not vote on Wikipedia, that our decisions are based on WP:Consensus and that counting heads is the wrong way to do things. Am I mistaken? MarshallKe (talk) 17:28, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

@MarshallKe: It's still considered bad form to bold your comment again after you already have done so. See this provision of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion: You can explain your earlier recommendation in response to others but do not repeat a bolded recommendation on a new bulleted line. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 17:36, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Also, see WP:!Vote for why I added a ! in front of vote. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 17:37, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

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TheWikiWizard-Summer 2021

Hello, MJL! Here is the Summer 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard.

Wikipedia News

• There is an election that is taking place, for the Wikikmedia Foundation, to read more about it click here
• The Wikipedia Library, has made some updates to their terms of use. You can read more here
• Wikimania took place this month!
• There are a few new admins who have joined the Admin Team, congrats to them! Remember, if you see a use who you believe meets the criteria for adminship here, or on other projects (Please check that Wikipedia/Wikimedia Project's Adminship Criteria page, as they vary by project), you can give it a try and nominate them for adminship if they are okay with it!

Humour

• There is no due date in Wikipedia, so I could take 1000 years to write this issue! ;P
• If you are reading this, you are reading this! (makes no sense, but okay!)
• There is no more Humour to put and this sentence is no longer funny.
• The mess I made in my room is bigger than this city!
• Here's a list of all events that happened between TWW issues

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• I have been really busy with school so I was unable to write this issue for a long time. Thanks for your patience. :)

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Request

Thank you for the kitten, I was a bit off. I am like semi-retired, and anyway please take a look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_titles_and_honours_of_George_VI#George’s_titles 59.92.227.87 (talk) 06:51, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

ANI follow-up

I started the discussion at the administrators' noticeboard titled "spooky IP editor", but soon thereafter was AFK due to travel. Since then, the section has been closed by CambridgeBayWeather (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), but I still wanted to get some clarification. I hope you don't mind my asking here.

You said, You're fine. I think you're saying that 109.79.160.61 (talk · contribs) is an anonymous contributor who somehow hops from IP address to IP address (for reasons), but that your admin tools prove that all those IPs are the same person? (Have I understood that correctly?) So, that means that while the person behind all those those IP addresses may have followed me across the wiki two days ago, they have a longer history and didn't "just [appear] from the æther" to follow me around? That's somewhat releiving, but may I ask: do your sysop tools allow you to compare the edits of all their different IP addresses against mine? That'd just be a balm to my nerves, if so. Thanks for your time, — Fourthords | =Λ= | 16:15, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

@Fourthords: I'm not a sysop, so I don't have access to any pieces of info that you don't already have.
109.79 is on a dynamic IP address, so they get randomly switched from one address to another by their ISP. For example, they previously used 109.79.81.95 and 109.79.73.171 (notice the distinct lack of timeline overlap between the two?). I put both of those addresses in editorinteract.py, and here are the results: [1][2]. I doubt if I went further back that I would find a lot more intersections between you two, and since I can only input a few IP addresses at a time it would be rather tedious to check.
The most likely scenario is that 109.79 saw your removals of content, checked your contributions real quick, and tried to restore a few things before moving on to something else. Nothing much to worry about in my opinion. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 16:32, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

I don't have a good handle on internet technology, so your explanation of that contributor's strange situation was already beyond my ken. Thanks so much for doing more digging to assuage my fears, I appreciate it! — Fourthords | =Λ= | 16:37, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

WikiCup 2021 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, The Rambling Man and Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are Gog the Mild, Lee Vilenski, BennyOnTheLoose, Amakuru and Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

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Two stroopwafels for you!

Thanks for helping out at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects and categories! — Qwerfjkltalk 18:13, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Alert

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in gender-related disputes or controversies or in people associated with them. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

Basketcase2022 (talk) 18:48, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

@Basketcase2022: And the point of this was...? –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 19:04, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

@MJL: You tell me! Why did you put it on my talk page? Basketcase2022 (talk) 19:07, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

@Basketcase2022: Did you read the message? –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 19:10, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

@MJL: Stop being a meddlesome busybody. Go run for office or something. Basketcase2022 (talk) 19:11, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

@Basketcase2022: You come to my talk page to give me an alert I obviously already knew about (since I just informed you about it), and you are now calling me a meddlesome busybody?
Maybe you are just confused. The alert does not serve as a warning (hence the It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date. part of it). It is to let you know there are a set of more complex rules regarding the issue of gender and sexuality that you should know about. Does that make sense? –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 19:19, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

@MJL: You're right. Let me revise and extend my remarks. Stop being a meddlesome nobody. You really do belong in public office. Basketcase2022 (talk) 19:22, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Basketcase2022, Excuse me, that is totally uncivil and unacceptable. MJL put a *standard* notice because you had been editing in gender related areas. The notice is meant to inform you so that you're aware gender areas have heightened scrutiny. Its a very normal procedure, and your hostility is entirely uncalled for. CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 19:27, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

::::::::@MJL: You're the one who's uncalled for. Nobody asked you to stalk my user talk page. See WP:HOUNDING. Basketcase2022 (talk) 19:32, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

@Basketcase2022: I understand you may be having a bad day or are just really that upset about getting a {{ds/alert}} placed on your talk page, but that is no reason to take it out on me. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 19:34, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Talk:Irtash/GA2

MJL, I'm happy to report that the Irtash GA nomination has already undergone a new review at the link above. As you offered to adopt the nomination, I'm hoping you'll be able to stop by soon and address the issues that have been raised. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:37, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

New Page Review queue September 2021

Hello MJL,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.

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Your draft article, Draft:Board of assessment appeals

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In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:02, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:List of anti-Trump Republican organizations

Hello, MJL. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "List of anti-Trump Republican organizations".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:05, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

Appointment as a trainee arbitration clerk

Hi MJL. Your application was successful and you have been added to the clerk team as a trainee. We have added you to the list of clerks and subscribed you to the mailing list (info: WP:AC/C#clerks-l). Welcome, and I look forward to working with you! To adjust your subscription options for the mailing list, see the link at mail:clerks-l. The mailing list works in the usual way, and the address to which new mailing list threads can be sent is clerks-llists.wikimedia.org. Useful reading for new clerks is the procedures page, WP:AC/C/P, but you will learn all the basic components of clerking on-the-job.

New clerks begin as a trainee, are listed as such at WP:AC/C#Personnel, and will remain so until they have learned all the aspects of the job. When you've finished training, then we'll propose to the Committee that you be made a full clerk. As a clerk, you'll need to check your e-mail regularly, as the mailing list is where the clerks co-ordinate (on-wiki co-ordination page also exists but is not used nearly as much). If you've any questions at any point of your traineeship, simply post to the mailing list.

As mentioned in my email to you, if you have IRC we can add you to the clerks IRC channel. This is where some communication occurs, especially minor clarifications or quick approvals from arbitrators.

Lastly, it might be useful if you enter your timezone into WP:AC/C#Personnel (in the same format as the other members have), so that we can estimate when we will have clerks available each day; this is, of course, at your discretion. Again, welcome! Regards, Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 22:09, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

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New Signature

My signature has now been changed to promote WikiProject Webcomics instead of WikiProject Connecticut. I still want people to support the latter, but I have been trying to move away from old identity (which was a mistake and should not be named) with changes like this. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 14:07, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

RFC advice

Thanks for the rfc advice.Ppdallo (talk) 09:35, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Wikipedia!

Please list your username under the participants’ section of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.

The following prizes would be recognized at the end of the contest:

• Overall winner
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• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. We look forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:20, 30th September 2021 (UTC)

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