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Eggplant/aubergineHello, I see you moved "Eggplant" to "Aubergine/Eggplant". Though of course this plant and vegetable have different names in different parts of the world, WP policy says that we choose one of the variants and stick with it. Please see WP:TITLE and WP:ENGVAR. --macrakis (talk) 18:02, 31 May 2009 (UTC) Gloster HillYou tagged this for a merger; I’ve replied here. Xyl 54 (talk) 23:44, 9 September 2010 (UTC) July 2011
In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page. This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. Steamroller Assault (talk) 06:03, 20 July 2011 (UTC) Catalan independenceHey, very minor heads-up here. I've taken the liberty to adjust the quoted titles and move target in your request to reflect that actual, correct capitalization (e.g. "Welsh independence", not "Welsh Independence"). --213.196.210.189 (talk) 17:26, 5 December 2012 (UTC) Catalan independenceHi FOARP, and thanks for closing discussion at Talk:Catalan independentism#Requested move. As you may know, RM has a big backlog, so non-admin closures help move the process along. You're probably ok in this case, but it's generally not considered appropriate to close your own RM, however. See Wikipedia:Requested moves/Closing instructions#Non-admin closure for full instructions. Also, when you close an RM as move, you'll want to use the {{db-move}} template if you can't do so yourself. I've done that for you in this case. Thanks again. --BDD (talk) 16:25, 13 December 2012 (UTC) Disambiguation link notification for January 28Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Shark Island Extermination Camp, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Aus (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:56, 28 January 2013 (UTC) ![]() Message added 18:57, 29 January 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Disambiguation link notification for February 7Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Hu Xijin, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Chinese government (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:35, 7 February 2013 (UTC) Disambiguation link notification for February 14Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Maji Maji Rebellion, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Matumbi (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 10:51, 14 February 2013 (UTC) File:GlobalTimeslogo.png missing description detailsDear uploader: The media file you uploaded as:
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC) Hi After the AfD, the merging have been done, so could you close the request merge ? --Panam2014 (talk) 14:45, 11 December 2017 (UTC) SomaliaHello @FOARP, I see that you're well established editor. I'm writing this comment to let you know that i've made a change on the Somalia article, i have reinstated the map as it was before showcasing the whole of Somalia. The reason why i have done this is that, the disputed nature of Somaliland is mentioned in the same article itself, the internationally recognised borders of Somalia includes the whole territory including Somaliland. So for this reason it would not be a fair representation of the Somalia article to show Somaliland as disputed because then we would also need to show the disputed nature of Catalonia in Spain, but the Spain article includes the whole of sovereign Spain including Catalonia and rightly so. The same way the whole internationally recognised borders of Somalia should be shown on the map. You are correct in highlighting the disputed nature of Somaliland but as i said this is talked about in the very same article. If you scroll down the article it speaks about Somaliland being defacto autonomous self governing region and so on. Anyways, if we are going to show a map that is not consistant with the internationally recognised Somalia border, then we should talk about this on the talk page and reach some kind of understanding. Thanks Pepsmiand (talk) 03:01, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
![]() FOARP (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log)) Request reason: Caught by an open proxy block but this host or IP is not an open proxy. My IP address is - I have no idea, but I am currently at the Shard in London and it is bloody foolish to block the IP address of an entire office/building in the centre of London. AFAIK no proxy is used here. Accept reason: See below. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 11:15, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
46.235.152.40 , at the very least registered users should still be able to edit. FOARP (talk) 10:03, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
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Daily Mail !banHi just to let you know I would be interested in participating in a discussion about reopening the !ban discussion. I just want to make it clear that I have no COI or desire to see the image of the DM cleaned up. I think it is a trashy bit of journalism but that doesn't make it a generally unreliable source in my opinion. Probably not much more than the high brow broadsheets. The decision to ban it (sod the "this is not a ban" hypocrisy let's call a spade a spade) was taken on totally subjective opinions from users that was based on anecdotes and specifically chosen examples. I personally feel this is not a good image to give Wikipedia where a handful of editors can effectively prevent 122 years of journalism read by millions of people every day from being used as a source. Dom from Paris (talk) 11:14, 2 December 2018 (UTC) Tuidang Movement AfDIt didn't work. There's no AfD page. Doug Weller talk 13:59, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
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RFCYou should not really alter another users comments, especially not an opening RFC comment.Slatersteven (talk) 15:21, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
Daily MailHi I just thought I'd let you know I'm stepping back from the DM thing. Sadly I think that there is no way that we will ever see that ban overturned. The voters in the survey basically are all saying the same thing that it is too early to see a change since the new editor has taken over but noone is ready to say how they would mesure the change. The whole thing was based on anecdotal evidence so it is purely a "I just don't like it" vote. I feel like Don Quixote because it is impossible to counter systemic bias of this kind. Mainly because the paper is not the kind of paper anyone here would admit to liking because it is very low brow and the only people who are attacking the ban are like you and I and saying that don't actually like the paper. It doesn't matter how few upheld complaints there are how many awards they win it is paying the price of nasty editorial opinion choices. Dom from Paris (talk) 22:27, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
that is a ridulous argument for banning a publication and yes it is a ban because WP:DAILY MAIL says " As a result, the Daily Mail should not be used for determining notability, nor should it be used as a source in articles." With wording like that you can remove it every single time. If it can't be used for notability or a source what can it be used for? Why not ban all tabloids and all spread sheets except for the guardian because I am sure they cover everything. If you need multiple sources for notability and the info is carried only in the Times and The Daily Mail what do we do? Have a look at an article I wrote called The Horse (poem) I wanted to add the daily mail as a source for something a well known television journalist wrote about this poem as part of the legacy section. It was removed citing this RFC. Do we really think that the paper fabricated an article by Alistair Stewart ? I added it back again and it will probably get removed again. And once again how do we measure if the paper has improved with the new editor? Since when can a source simply be banned because they are not the sole source for certain information? Dom from Paris (talk) 00:32, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
BludgeoningI think this is the place to discuss the accusation you are WP:BLUDGEON.Slatersteven (talk) 15:39, 16 December 2018 (UTC) Not even the foggiest clue what you are talking about Steve. FOARP (talk) 15:45, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
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Oops. but do enjoy the beer, you and I meet a lot on AfD pages, and you've earned it.E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:29, 18 December 2018 (UTC) A beer for you!
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Does the... recent batch of edits by user Kzl55 constitutes a form of WP:GRAVEDANCING? They created a draftification log of pages supposedly created by a blocked user they were in a content dispute with. They went for a back-door deletion of a page that was kept at AfD. It may extend to collatoral damage as a page created by Awalbaacaashaqa who has a clean block log was draftified and they turned this 13,000 kb page into a stub. 88.104.37.149 (talk) 17:26, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
Administrative Notice Board incident report involving "Callout culture" articleThere is an Administrative Notice Board report (which can be found here) concerning Bacondrum's edits to the Call-out culture article. I am posting this notice on the Talk pages of the ten most frequent contributors to the article who have accounts on Wikipedia. -- DeRossitt (talk) 23:06, 3 June 2019 (UTC) Daily Mail RfC (wider comment)I think that the whole banning the Daily Mail business is just basically the continuation of a more-questionable publicity stunt back in 2017. 'The owner' is not British (and I don't even think he lives in Britain full time), and neither are most of the most vociferous proponents, and they know that the underlying arguments are not really that particularly strong, so the debate inevitably descend into something similar to an uncivil shouty Twitter spat. I mean, how could they possibly attack the printed copy of the Daily Mail of any given day is full of 'fake news', when they are not in fact based in England and Wales or Scotland, and can't actually get hold of a copy readily and cheaply, and read up and reference on it?! Cannot really reason with political activists who are supporting that 'Stop Funding Hate' Twitter handle and otherwise harbouring a clear political agenda, and no point in bothering trying. I momentarily thought of suggesting a new RfC limiting to the scope (ex MOS, MOL pre-2011, the print edition pre-2011 and (for now, the Saturday print editions) post-2017/8) might have been workable, but I soon have my doubts. I mean, anyone who thinks that RT, al-Jazeera and Press TV are e.g. somehow more reliable than the Mail... and the Independent has been recently attacked on Private Eye for doing no fact-checking and otherwise going down the road of Huff Post and Business Insider, rather than still maintaining the pretence that they are still a serious digital newspaper. Anyway, you nevertheless might however still wish to decide to come to that conclusion and take that particular course of action. (A complete lifting of the 'ban' is probably now impossible and unwise, now that the MOL has gone on this no-sub-editing, clickbaityesque, 'instant news' model; and I believe also that fake news are also knowingly and deliberately written on that website from time to time (e.g. regarding Interpal).) A cursory search on the editing history of the article of Labour MPs (in particular their wider editing behaviour) would suggest that this platform is not free from UK domestic political interference. (PS: I don't know if I had in my younger self once (in 2011/2?) commented on your Blog when you were still based in Taiwan or Japan?!) 194.207.146.167 (talk) 02:29, 18 June 2019 (UTC) Page rename
Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 15:33, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
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Camp BecketHi I saw your opposition to changing the name of the Camp Becket Wikipedia page to Becket-Chimney Corners YMCA. I agree with you that the best solution would be to make a new page entirely for chimney corners camp. As a newcomer to Wikipedia I am not quite sure how to go about this I was wondering either if you could help me make a new page for Chimney, or change your opposing vote to changing the name for all the reasons I requested in my name change proposal. Thank you so much. Jmansfield2021 (talk) 02:31, 30 July 2019 (UTC) Your GA nomination of Sweden during World War IHi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Sweden during World War I you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. Hi, FOARP! Is there anything in my review which you'd like to discuss? Haukur (talk) 08:21, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
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Your GA nomination of Sweden during World War IThe article Sweden during World War I you nominated as a good article has passed Disambiguation link notification for October 12An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Herero Wars, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Nama (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). (Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 07:27, 12 October 2019 (UTC) Disambiguation link notification for October 19An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Day by Day (webcomic), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Ebonics (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). (Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 07:19, 19 October 2019 (UTC) "a change in strategy"In regards to your Talk:Call-out_culture#A_Chill_Pill I'm curious to learn what you meant by "a change in strategy"? Suggestions welcome, in Talk page or by email. Thanks. (Please ping when replying anywhere other than my Talk page) —Srid🍁 14:39, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
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I have just relisted Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Online Blockchain. If you would prefer this be soft deleted ping me and I will close the AfD that way (assuming no one has come along and !voted kept in the interim). Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 01:36, 18 December 2019 (UTC) HacklashSad to see certain governments following Wikipedia's lead in 'banning' newspapers they don't like. Kind of funny to see the Daily Mail offering some of the most effective criticism on this. Hope all is going well for you. FeydHuxtable (talk) 16:01, 5 February 2020 (UTC) AfDsThanks for your help with Complex (English band). If you have time, you may want to check out the other articles I have nominated in case I have made any more mistakes. I plan to stop nominating AFDs for now, as I think I over-estimated the quality of my research. JohnmgKing (talk) 15:30, 11 June 2020 (UTC) InvitationYou are invited to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stelth Ulvang for making a comment on the issue. Regards Pesticide1110 (talk) 18:32, 11 June 2020 (UTC) WikiProject Military history invitation![]() Thank you for your recent contributions to one of Wikipedia's articles related to military and warfare. Given the interest you've expressed by your edits, have you considered joining WikiProject Military history? We are a group of editors dedicated to improving the overall coverage of military and warfare on Wikipedia. If you would like to join, simply add your name to the list of participants. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project talk page. We look forward to working with you in the future! --Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 17:31, 24 October 2020 (UTC) A barnstar for you!
OperasThe list of operas had many bad names already, and why should it be stuck with "prominent" - a word that doesn't occur in the article?? It used to be "important" until someone closed a move request to their liking and disappeared. Such a waste of time, while that incorrect earlier close could just have been reverted. End of frustrated rant, sorry about that. - I liked your detailed analysis for Chinese whispers. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:18, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for November 9An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Oriole, Kentucky, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Ian Hunter. (Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:12, 9 November 2020 (UTC) ArbCom 2020 Elections voter messageDYK nomination of They Live on The Land
On the mass deletion attemptI was coming to the conclusion, pondering the situation this morning, that a mass delete of all those sourced only to Durham was probably in order. Almost none of those pan out, and it can certainly be argued that citation only to a single, exhaustive listing is a major GNG fail. Dealing with the GNIS listings is going to meet a lot of resistance. Mangoe (talk) 16:18, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
Chinese whispers/TelephoneI am very disappointed about how the closer and many other editors are ignoring you're sources showing 30% more common for "Chinese whispers" (even assuming POVNAME was a valid reason for moving anyway). I honestly thought that when I saw you're strong arguments presented with sources etc that you'd completely demolished the case for moving the article, combined with my ATDAB arguments which address RETAIN. Not one of the editors at the discussion, closer or move review have addressed you're sources, quite shocking. Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:04, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
I found this mess. If you nominate it at WP:AFD, please ping me. Bearian (talk) 22:21, 18 December 2020 (UTC) DYK nomination of They Live on The Land
DYK for They Live on the LandOn 29 December 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article They Live on the Land, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the social study They Live on the Land was based on interviews with nearly the entire population of a rural Alabama town during the Great Depression? You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, They Live on the Land), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 29 December 2020 (UTC) Happy New Year
Disambiguation link notification for January 28An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Chinese whispers, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Double Dutch. (Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:05, 28 January 2021 (UTC) Kieren Hawken sourcesHi, I see you've reverted a number of my edits recently. They were made based on Wikipedia's "Verifiability" guidelines around self-published books. Wikipedia:Reliable_sources#Self-published_sources_(online_and_paper) To quote : "Anyone can create a personal web page or publish their own book and claim to be an expert in a certain field. For that reason, self-published sources are largely not acceptable. Self-published books and newsletters, personal pages on social networking sites, tweets, and posts on Internet forums are all examples of self-published media. Self-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established expert on the subject matter, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable, independent publications." Based on a huge amount of feedback regarding the author's books, they are found to be inaccurate. As for the author being an "established expect", there are numerous respected and reliable sources in the field of retro computing that would strongly argue against that. For that reason I'd made the edits, as they didn't meet the requirements of a reliable source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.39.122.18 (talk) 17:04, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
My apologies. I'm still trying to understand some of the Wikipedia guidelines and when they're applied. No malice intended, and I appreciate the feedback. Lesson learned. 86.162.15.34 (talk) 17:48, 10 February 2021 (UTC) Sentinel cartridge coverHi, FOARP. I noticed the file you uploaded for the Sentinel game cover is relatively high-res, when the minimal use rationale in the 'Summary' section reads: "The is a low-quality, low-res image [...]". I've basically never seen copyrighted box art posted at such a high resolution; for example, here's one that I retrieved from Moby Games but which I had to downscale substantially to meet Wikipedia's fair use guidelines. Unless something has changed substantially, I think the image you uploaded may be in violation of those guidelines. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 15:50, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
I was going to wait until after fully reviewing your other two unreviewed articles, but I couldn't help myself
Cheers TheTechnician27. There's only a few of the original Atari-released Atari 2600 games left without articles. Some are obviously never going to have articles (can't find enough sources for Motorodeo, for example) but should be able to finish off the rest. Then I plan to look at the sourcing of the other articles to deletion-proof them. FOARP (talk) 17:45, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
DYK nomination of RealSports Baseball
Hi againHi again, FOARP. I wanted to let you know I've moved 'RealSports series' to 'RealSports', as I don't see any need to disambiguate here, and there's actually a lot of established precedent for not putting 'series' in an article about a video game series (except, of course, for articles like 'Pokemon (video game series) or FIFA (video game series) where the franchise extends far beyond just games). TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 01:31, 5 March 2021 (UTC) DYK for RealSports BaseballOn 13 March 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article RealSports Baseball, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that RealSports Baseball, part of Atari's response to an Intellivision marketing campaign fronted by George Plimpton, won a best sports game award for 1983? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/RealSports Baseball. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, RealSports Baseball), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:03, 13 March 2021 (UTC) Good pointsAbout the artificial and simplified graduation of sources. Also, something just I realized: this wording suggests that an obscure paper in the lowest denomination peer-reviewed journal (one not indexed anywhere), written by an otherwise unknown scholar who may not even be an expert in the field (let's say a musician...), with zero citations, paywalled, with zero footnotes (an academic op-ed) etc. is still considered 'fine', whereas an award-winning, best-selling book, consulted with and positively reviewed by scholars, with footnotes and so on, is 'bad' because it is published by a non-academic publishing house. Because academic peer review is infallible? *Facepalm* . Btw, as you may or may not know, I am academic too and I publish peer-reviewed papers. And if you ask me for a synonym for peer-review, here's one: a lottery (well, the system works well enough to keep total garbage out, but once a work is plausible, all bets are off... grievance studies affair anyone?). Any academic who publisher papers in social sciences knows that if the reviewers don't like it, the solution is not to waste time addressing their objections (usually too much work, plus if the paper got rejected, why bother addressing criticism of reviewers who'll never review a given work again?), just keep hitting different journals until you get a set of reviewers who like your point. And as far as I can tell, this applies to 'top journals' (the ones in best indexes, with high impact factors, etc.). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 13:56, 13 March 2021 (UTC) DYK for The Coming War With JapanOn 5 April 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Coming War With Japan, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that neither of the US-based authors of the 1991 book The Coming War With Japan had ever visited Japan when they wrote it? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Coming War With Japan. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Coming War With Japan), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. — Maile (talk) 00:02, 5 April 2021 (UTC) StopPlease show me where in the ANI it states ALL those village articles MUST be redirected. Thank. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 09:48, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a gazetteer
Axis Powers PageHi FOARP, I was not aware there was a second mass discussion opened this year. Wish I knew at the time it was happening in February. I don’t know how many participated. I recall you and I participated in one late last year so thought that was the one. It had seemed you and I were on the same page hence my confusion and surprise and why I reverted why I did. Hope no hard feelings. My bad. OyMosby (talk) 16:32, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
The Coming War with JapanI've reviewed the GAN, and it's on hold. Just a little bit to do. The bot that runs the GA stuff is apparently down today, so I thought I'd post you a message here, to make sure you saw it. Hog Farm Talk 03:35, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of The Coming War With JapanHi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article The Coming War With Japan you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. Page mover granted![]() Hello, FOARP. Your account has been granted the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names and moving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind a redirect, move subpages when moving the parent page(s), and move category pages. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Page mover for more information on this user right, especially the criteria for moving pages without leaving redirect. Please remember to follow post-move cleanup procedures and make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects when Useful links:
If you do not want the page mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:15, 14 May 2021 (UTC) Your GA nomination of The Coming War With JapanThe article The Coming War With Japan you nominated as a good article has passed DS 2021 Review UpdateDear FOARP, Thank you for participating in the recent discretionary sanctions community consultation. We are truly appreciative of the range of feedback we received and the high quality discussion which occurred during the process. We have now posted a summary of the feedback we've received and also a preview of some of what we expect to happen next. We hope that the second phase, a presentation of draft recommendations, will proceed on time in June or early July. You will be notified when this phase begins, unless you choose to to opt-out of future mailings by removing your name here.
Featuring your work on Wikipedia's front page: DYKsThank you for your recent articles, including Kozłow Desert, which I read with interest. When you create an extensive and well referenced article, you may want to have it featured on Wikipedia's main page in the Did You Know section. Articles included there will be read by thousands of our viewers. To do so, add your article to the list at T:TDYK. This can be also done through this helpful user script: User:SD0001/DYK-helper. Let me know if you need help, Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:59, 21 May 2021 (UTC) I need your experienceSometimes it happens that some expert users are so overbearing as to be annoying. Often prone to edit warring and personal attacks. In the specific case I want to refer to the national titles section in the biographies of the athletes (but also to the medal table count in the infobox). Well according to the Manual Of Style for athlete biographies this is recommended, but it happens that the user in question makes you one or more reverts saying that it is irrelevant for him. As you know it is almost useless to raise the question in the talk of the page and even in the project, this was done but without any participation. Therefore, based on your experience, given that in the recent past you have even managed to make downgrade the rights of this expert user because he is the author of stubs, probably not even encyclopedic articles, just to be able to improve his already very high ranking among users who have written more articles. Really only the ANI can be resolved the question? Otherwise I ask you for advice, but also for help, on how on Wikipedia you can give visibility to the topic (I did not succeed) and obtain a consensus in order to avoid ANI. --Kasper2006 (talk) 03:11, 28 May 2021 (UTC) 1) You’re risking being sanctioned for WP:CANVASS by contacting me this way. 2) This is somewhat erratic and hard-to-understand behaviour from Lugnuts. I don’t get why a national title (assuming these are national-level titles and the source for them is actually reliable) would not be relevant. 3) I recommend simply contacting him directly on his talk-page, non-confrontationally, for an answer. You should also confirm that your source is a reliable one. FOARP (talk) 06:15, 28 May 2021 (UTC) Question about Afghanistan warHi, I'm Persian wiki user. you deleted war maps on the Taliban offensive 2021 page Do you have a follow-up map to present? Fakhravar jam (talk) 09:19, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
Discovered this new map for Afghanistan by BBC.I recently found a BBC Article https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57818221 "Afghanistan: Taliban flag raised above border crossing with Pakistan" It includes a Map of the Afghan conflict sourced to BBC Afghan service and is updated to July 12th of 2021. Would this be considered a more appropriate source by Wikipedia guidelines? Perhaps those who desperately want a map shown on the Afghan War/Taliban pages can accept this as an alternative? If not, then I guess it at least goes to show how complex this situation truly is. It is clear that trying to define who controls what is a difficult thing to measure. Not to mention that the methodology or definition of control likely differs from source to source. I mean just try to compare this BBC map to the LWJ map and you will recognize the vast differences. In this way, I still think its better to avoid including such maps in the articles. None the less, I thought id bring up what I consider another alternative to the current Map discussions ongoing for the Afghan war pages. Njofallofall (talk) 21:54, 16 July 2021 (UTC) |