User talk:Anarchyte/Archive 17
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Pasta, acronyms, and one computer-crashing talk page. Invitation to participate in a researchHello, The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of Wikipedians to better understand what draws administrators to contribute to Wikipedia, and what affects administrator retention. We will use this research to improve experiences for Wikipedians, and address common problems and needs. We have identified you as a good candidate for this research, and would greatly appreciate your participation in this anonymous survey. You do not have to be an Administrator to participate. The survey should take around 10-15 minutes to complete. You may read more about the study on its Meta page and view its privacy statement . Please find our contact on the project Meta page if you have any questions or concerns. Kind Regards, BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:23, 23 October 2024 (UTC) Help needed with a deleted page.Hi Anarchyte, I am a new editor who started editing on Wikipedia quite recently. Unfortunately, one of the pages I was editing has been deleted recently. The page belonged to an acquaintance of mine who does not understand the technicalities of editing content here on Wikipedia. Hence I was helping him out in updating details onto the page which had a lot of missing information. And now the whole page has been deleted which I am still trying to understand as to why. I created a new Wiki page for a book of his by the name "Devara Colony" and added it to the Bibliography section of the individual. The reason was not very comprehensible to me on the deletion of both these pages. While reading the reason, I was guided to a list who can help me with getting the page back on and your name was on that list too. Can you please help me with the procedure to get the deleted page back on? Here is the link to the page that was deleted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrashekar_Bandiyappa Also please let me know what exactly went wrong with this page & what needs to be done to avoid this? Looking forward to hearing from you as soon as I can. ```` AGga426 (talk) 14:33, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
Text of a deleted pageHello, If am correct, you are listed among administrators willing to provide text of deleted pages. The page Ha Khel Sawalyancha has been deleted through AfD. The closer (@Liz) indicated in her closing statement "If an editor wants to create a Redirect from this page title, feel free to do so." I will but I would rather use the numerous sources that had been added to the page, to add them to the target page now, List of Marathi films of 1976, so could you provide me with the text of that deleted page, please? Apparently Liz has no time at the moment (User_talk:Liz#Ha_Khel_Sawalyancha deletion; User_talk:Liz#Ha_Khel_Sawalyancha), that's why I took the liberty to ask you this favour. Thank you. I still think a restoration of the history of the original page/TP would be a good idea but not sure you can do it when you provide the text (even if my intention is to make it a redirect). Thanks a lot in advance. (You can use User:Mushy Yank/Ha Khel Sawalyancha if you wish or any other address that is easy for you) (I redirected the page of the alternative spelling but the sources and content is what I would need, so as not to be forced to search, rewrite and format it all; I have no intention to recreate a standalone page). Best, -My, oh my! (Mushy Yank) 11:07, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2024News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).
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But not everybody is able to legally read Wikipedia, and not everybody is able to legally edit Wikipedia.
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Plus human knowledge and Ozzie places!
Asian News International, the Delhi High Court, and the encyclopedia.
Your photos are more valuable than you may realize.
What is going on?
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IP address privacy tools, and mysterious archive sites.
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It's so over. ArbCom 2024 Elections voter message Hello! Voting in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 2 December 2024. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2024 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add Nomination of Blast Monkeys for deletion The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blast Monkeys until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.TWOrantulaTM (enter the web) 15:55, 26 November 2024 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – December 2024News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).
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New arbs to be seated in January.
Will the fifth try at achieving peace be a mudfight, or something better?
Should old acquaintance be forgot?
An editor's reflection on social capital and their changing relationship with Wikipedia culture. by Tamzin
Wikipedia aims to represent the sum of all knowledge. Is there an imbalance between Western countries and the rest of the world.
Ballooning British bias bombast!
Fighting and killing – on screen, in politics, and in the ring – competes for attention with Disney.
The importance of feedback. Merry Christmas!
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A personal essay.
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Good faith edits REVERTED and accounts BLOCKED.
Peace on earth, goodwill to all!
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The 20th anniversary of The Signpost.
A lot of psephology!
HUMINT or humbug?
Hallelujah!
Johnny Au has edited for 17 years straight without missing a day.
Some thoughts from the original editor-in-chief.
Public Domain Day 2025, Women in Red hits 20% biography milestone, Spanish Wikipedia reaches two million articles, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
The Signpost staff on achievements of '24 and hopes for '25.
The latest crusade?
Our alumni speak!
Applying the scientific method to a model of conflict that leads to arbitration.
This post fact-checked by real Wikipedian patriots. Request help to create BLP pageHi Anarchyte, I am David, a volunteer from India who is trying to create pages for all sitting MLAs in India for the 29+ states. Our last state is Gujarat and I found that one MLA page Mukesh Patel is protected after a sanction some years ago. Since then he is elected as an MLA. Kindly see if I may be permitted to create a page for him. I have no Conflict Of Interest as I create pages for all party MLAs of all states... thanks and regards, Davidindia (talk) 16:15, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 7 February 2025
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The WMF executive team delivers a new update; plus, the latest EU policy report, good-bye to the German Wikipedia's Café, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
Editor Fathoms Below reminisces over their successful RfA from February 2024.
Plus, reports on the ARBPIA5 case, new concerns over projects targeting Wikipedia editors, John Green gets his sponsor flowers, and other news.
Wikimedians and newbies celebrate 24 years of Wikipedia in the Brooklyn Central Library. Special guests Stephen Harrison and Clay Shirky joined in conversation.
Ending with some bans, and a new set of editing sanctions.
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Or just the end of Wikipedia as we know it?
Of "hunters", "busybodies" and "dancers".
User Sennecaster shares her thoughts on her recent RfA and the aspects that might have played a role in making it successful.
What are they? Why are they important? How can we make them better? And what can you do to help?
Liberté, liberté chérie.
Grammys, politics and the Super Bowl.
Straight from the source's mouth. A source is a source, of course, of course!
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The Signpost: 22 March 2025
It's an ecstasy, my spring.
Let them know what you think!
Read this, then forget all about it.
Life on the Wiki as usual!
And WMF invites multi-year research fund proposals
The Oscars, politics, and death elbow for the most attention.
The photographers are the celebrities!
And very unusual biographical images.
Send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee. Happy First Edit Day!
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New user, request to add deleted article to my user draftHi @Anarchyte! I recently joined and drafted an article, and received a message saying it would be deleted per a potential conflict of interest and I should instead draft it on my user drafts and have an editor review it. It also said I could ask you (someone on a long list) to move the deleted version of the article to my user drafts. The article is Sword Health, submit@ted yesterday. Is that something you could please help me with? Thanks! Lmacphail (talk) 09:48, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 9 April 2025Fellow doctor Osama Khalid remains behind bars for "violating public morals" by editing.
Major changes to core content policy, or still-developing plan for new initiative?
Defeat, or just a setback?
Plus: 30-year anniversary of wiki software commemorated.
Our content is free, our infrastructure is not!
What is to be done?
Advice to aspirants: "Read RfA debriefs", including this one.
Rest in peace.
Snow White sinking, Adolescence soaring, spacefarers stranded, this list has it all!
The Wikimedia Foundation's announcement from Diff.
Gadzooks! The Signpost: 1 May 2025As always, Wikimedia community governance relies on user participation; plus, more updates from the Wikimedia world
Scrapers, an Indian lawsuit, and a crash-or-not-crash?
And other new research findings.
And don't bite those newbies!
And don't bite those newbies!
Television dramas, televised sports, film, the Pope, and ... bioengineering at the top of the list?
Community volunteers network among themselves and use technology to counter attacks on information sharing.
A look at some product and tech highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation's Annual Plan (July–December 2024).
Hey! At least it is something!
Zounds!
Would a billion articles be a good idea?
There's a lot more to this than you think.
I wonder about having crats, but decided to become one anyway.
Just beautiful photos!
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And other courtroom drama.
And how he knows it: all about lawyer letters and editing logs.
Why the language barrier is not the only impediment to navigating sources from another culture.
And QR codes for every page!
When an editor is ready to become staff at a public library (not a brother in a fraternity).
Rest in peace.
The technology behind it, and the other stuff.
Gadzooks!
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"Video game key" listed at Redirects for discussion
The Signpost: 24 June 2025
Admins arrested in Belarus.
Pardon our alliteration!
A get-out-of-jail card!
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Holy men and not-as-holy movies.
Get your self-nomination in by July 2nd!
After two years RuWiki fails to thrive.
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