User talk:Shibbolethink/Archive 23
The Signpost: 1 January 2023Plus admin update and cool tools for the new year.
Sometimes you need to read more than just the headlines!
Interview of ComplexRational about their recent request for adminship.
Wikifunctions might drag it down.
Frustrations and successes.
Congratulations.
And other new research findings.
How Iranian press agencies help Wikipedia to reflect football in a better way.
You head into the featured content report. Amongst the features you see astronauts, both Gilbert and Sullivan, Ursula K. Le Guin's incredibly talented mother, and Billboard charts. It is pitch black, you are likely to be eaten by a grue.
It is mostly about football!
In which a couple sentences of text recontextualises an image.
Photographers, Sandy Hook, the shocking use of Nazi symbols in articles about Nazis, and "You wouldn't recognise a fact if it bit you in the ass". A good close, thank youI missed the discussion at Talk:1993_UEFA_Champions_League_final, but glad to see you came to the correct conclusion anyway. This is the third such RM, and we've come to the same conclusion every time, so I'm not really sure why people are still opposing it. Old habits die hard, I guess. Well done for seeing through all that! Cheers — Amakuru (talk) 17:16, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
Precioushealthcare Thank you for quality articles beginning with So You've Been Publicly Shamed in 2015, for contributing to articles about healthcare, such as Dutasteride, based on scientific expertise (pictured), for discussion before a move, for taking care of the health of the project, - you are an awesome Wikipedian! You are recipient no. 2797 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:43, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 16 January 2023It's not just a phase! Well, maybe it is.
Long-time contributors imprisoned for 32 and 8 years after "swaying public opinion" and "violating public morals".
UCoC draws nearer, alongside the rise of the machines, in mainspace this time.
Wikipedia's birthday, a cute dog, and nipplefruit.
The depths of Commons, at your fingertips. Or eyetips.
Debunking widely-told myths about New York's grandest and centralest railway station.
The economics of Wikipedia.
When notability conflicts with what it might be used for.
7,000,000-year Landmasses for Subduction discussions considered "too long".
Allow us to bring you back, back, back, to days of Wikifun rampant.
...and your ambigram. Also: Boring lava fields, birds of Tuvalu, and commelinid family names with etymologies.
War, sports, and all types of chaos.
The editor with five million edits, the death of Aaron Swartz, and rollback. Accidental clickDear User:Shibbolethink, I apologise for the revert I made here. It was due to an accidental click as I have the page on my watchlist. Kind regards, AnupamTalk 13:22, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
ThanksFor seeing to this. Despite their claim to the contrary, that duck was quacking loudly. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 18:09, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
"It doesn't have to be like this" discussionYou wrote: 'We should still have a place for uninvolved editors to contribute, because they are the "aggrieved parties"'. I think you meant "involved". -- Colin°Talk 17:53, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 4 February 2023
Last issue's vow for "something to show for these efforts" revisited.
As well as the continued rise of the machines, and Amanda Keton's WMF departure.
Section 230 before the Supreme Court in two cases, with broad implications for the web.
Or Santos on Wikipedia?
WMF issues salvo in latest battles of the Posting Wars
The good, the bad, and the ugly.
Isamaa party sponsor Parvel Pruunsild files claim in Tartu County Court against WMEE head Ivo Kruusamägi and Reform Party politicians.
English Wikipedia among most "global" and Thai Wikipedia's among most "Western", but non-Western works neglected overall.
And other new research publications.
An interview with those who pitch in together
Letting you find out about yourself (and others).
An exceptionally good period for featured articles.
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