There's currently a new conflict in the White Mexicans article. Its (like we've seen multiple times before in other articles) an editor trying to force his way into the article disregarding sources, consensus and using rather subjective arguments to do so. Would appreciate your help. Pob3qu3 (talk) 03:43, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
Roman physical appearance, I think it should be clarified what “intermediate “ means on hiserplex, if you type in “skin color prediction “ you can read a variety of studies that explain that “intermediate “ is light skin that tans well and pale is light skin that doesn’t tan well, the first link from 2017 study explains this well, also if you look at the images results you will see multiple figures that shows the skin color visually next to the prediction, it’s clear intermediate is light skin from all the figures, which makes sense with what we see in Roman art, when people see intermediate they picture a modern south Asian, I don’t get why they even use that term, for example read the supplement information of the 2018 study that had cheddar man and louchbour hiserplex, it literally used the term white to describe a 90 percent intermediate value Yogibear1133 (talk) 05:58, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
Yes hlrisplex is what I meant, look up what intermediate actually means there is a huge difference from how people picture intermediate skin and what they prediction actually means but ok Yogibear1133 (talk) 02:21, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
Ok I’ll just leave it alone I doubt it will be changed and people that read ancient dna prediction without reading what each prediction means and how it is made clearly don’t understand context anyway Yogibear1133 (talk) 02:24, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5487854/
Just so you know I’m not making it up, read this study on all of the current 36 snps used in hlrisplex currently Yogibear1133 (talk) 02:27, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
You may now also copy edit Tristan and Iseult if you like. And Lancelot and Guinevere, I guess. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.173.49.220 (talk) 10:41, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi! I saw the edit summary for Special:Diff/1072681035 and was a little confused (maybe I need to get more sleep): what was the other image you were referring to? The change seems to just be changing whitespace. Enterprisey (talk!) 06:54, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
No. of districts in India = States + Union territories =(26+26+35+38+32+2+33+22+12+24+31+14+56+36+16+12+11+16+30+23+33+6+38+33+8+75+13+25) + (3+1+3+20+2+1+11+4) = 726 + 45 = 771 (not 775) Please clarify my doubt... 106.76.208.222 (talk) 01:25, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
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You need to look at other articles how they are written. No article in wikipedia uses the sentence you did. It looks complex in readability and not correct. Arorapriyansh333 (talk) 05:27, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
I saw your comment on the GOCE May Drive page, and tagged Statue of Queen Victoria (Hong Kong) as being copyedited, among others. Thank you! JML1148 (talk) 10:06, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
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Hi, just notifying you of this ANI thread connected to a discussion on the MoS talkpage. Boynamedsue (talk) 17:13, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for copyediting Nuremberg trials! You definitely improved the language and pushed me to increase the clarity of the article. Will go to FAC soon!
(t · c) buidhe 05:08, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
Hi Dhtwiki, are you aware another editor has pitched up on the requests page listing for this article? See this diif. They haven't edited the article yet but I'll strike their acceptance and drop a short note on their talk page. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 04:00, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
We are from Kerala we know our state. Nadhukerala (talk) 03:30, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
I've been involved in MANY CE drives. I was going to edit Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2005. But: for a word count of 315 words?! I don't think so. What's up with the word count widget? I'm not a math major or anything, but look at that article! Something is amiss.--Bddmagic (talk) 15:36, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for the help. I would like to learn more about wikEd. Where/how can I do that?--Bddmagic (talk) 17:48, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Apologies for adding to your GOCE workload at Ai-Khanoum; I believe the article is in a much better shape now, however, so I hope you'll forgive me.~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:43, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
Hi, you removed my editing on this article, writing that "further down that gives the defensive order of battle". Yes, but there was no offensive (Hungarian) order of battle given. This is what I added to my editing from yesterday. So I put back my editing because it is important for the understanding of where the given attacking brigade or battalion belonged. Sylvain1975 (talk) 07:32, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
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I just wanted to inform you that I am currently working on a lead section for the artcle. I hope to have it done before the week-end.
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Why do you not believe that the secretary of state shouldn't be hoisted up on the profile? The Secretary of State is one of the most important roles in the U.S. government and the highest secratarial cabinet member. Hi3d 2 (talk) 16:19, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
I'm currently having a sour conflict in the article of White Mexicans to the point I've had to restore to an stable verison, I'd appreciate if you supported me on it as you've done in the past when difficult editors come through, the difficult editor's behaviour is in fact very similar (and I mean it, check the diffs on my recent reply[1]) to those that have targeted articles related to European peoples on latin american countries before. Thanks in advance! Pob3qu3 (talk) 02:29, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
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Per WP:GA, anyone can nominate an article for Good Article review, not just registered users. It clarifies specifically that only registered users may review articles:
"Anyone may nominate an article, and any uninvolved and registered user with sufficient knowledge and experience with Wikipedia content policies may review an article nominated at this page against the good article criteria."
Furthermore, WP:GA does not require the user Nominating to have actually contributed to the article, as far as I can tell. I honestly believe Katana to be an article of good quality and I am willing to address any issues a reviewer would have with it. With this in mind, I am adding Katana back to be reviewed as a good article once again. 192.77.12.11 (talk) 03:03, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
Any editor, preferably one who creates or contributes to an article, who believes that the article meets the good article criteria, may nominate the article for an impartial reviewer to assess. Another editor may review the article after selecting it from a queue of good article nominations then evaluating it against the good article criteria.
All the other minor planets have the MP number along with the name at the top of the info box -- 1 Ceres, 136199 Eris, etc. Is there a reason Pluto is the sole exception? — kwami (talk) 02:59, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
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The GOCE December 2022 newsletter, as sent on 9 December, contains an erroneous start date for our December Blitz. The Blitz will start on 11 December rather than on 17 December, as stated in the newsletter. I'm sorry for the mistake and for disrupting your talk page; thanks for your understanding. Sent by Baffle gab1978 via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:30, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on the HS2 article. XAM2175 (T) 11:09, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments, which you added in discussion at James Madison. Please note that, on Wikipedia, consensus is determined by discussion, not voting, and it is the quality of the arguments that counts, not the number of people supporting a position. If your comments concerned a deletion discussion, please consider reading Wikipedia's deletion policy for a brief overview of the deletion process. We hope that you decide to stay and contribute even more. Thank you! Freoh (talk) 09:45, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
The only tag I remember being concerned with was that of bias or speaking in Wikipedia's voice with regard to quoting or paraphrasing Madison, when it was clear that it was Madison's thoughts being summarized, not that of Wikipedia's editors. So, I thought the allegation was unfounded. I haven't thought too much about the others, although I'm astonished that an article that seems to be passing at FAC can be legitimately tagged as such, however unlikely it is that such tags can be dismissed out-of-hand for the article merely having such a high status. Featured articles themselves can always stand improvement. Dhtwiki (talk) 02:16, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
Penlite has previously asked you not to scatter different edits all in one edit-event, but you have continued. Could you please make an effort to fix first rather than mass reverting? I find it disruptive to have to run each individual edit past you on the talk page. Freoh (talk) 11:54, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
scatter different edits all in one edit-event
addressed generally
different edits all in one edit-event
already contested
If there is any recent violation of anything here, it certainly is not 3RR and likely not EW, either— Daniel Case
disruptive
policy
serial reverts
When I revert, I might remove things that I would leave in were I to take the time to closely parse the edits in question. — Dhtwiki
slow to object
@Freoh:: As I recall, my comment about not spreading multiple disconnected separate edits, in one edit event, was aimed at YOU. No one else. It was in reference to your initial edit that started this squabble. Please go back and read it in context. ~ Penlite (talk) 09:04, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
original edit
