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Dates: 15 to 25 October 2015 Location: Worldwide/virtual/online event Host/Facilitator: Women in Red (WiR): Did you know that only 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you! Sponsor: Wikiproject Women Wikipedia Design Event details: This is a virtual edit-a-thon hosted by WiR in parallel with a series of "physical" Guggenheim edit-a-thons. It will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in architecture and design to participate. The campaign aims to further the goals of Ada Lovelace Day for STEM, and Art+Feminism for art, in a field that by its nature combines both. As the virtual edit-a-thon stretches over a week and a half, inexperienced participants will be able to draw on the assistance of more experienced editors while creating, translating or improving articles on women who are (or have been) prominent in this field. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. RSVP and learn more: →here←--Ipigott (talk ) 15:31, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

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Congrats, SMC. Montanabw^(talk) 23:54, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, folks. The sick thing is, almost none of that 100K is

WP:AWB; I haven't used it in years, and only for cleaning up small categories of articles like Category:Cue sports.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢

 ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  01:41, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

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You don't know me, but I just wanted to let you know I replied to your excellent comment from six months ago that you posted at the bottom of this talk page discussion. Have a good day. Czoal (talk) 19:37, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I commented there and suggested at

WP:SNOWBALL.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢

 ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  01:38, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

My pleasure. Yes, there was quite a snowstorm in that RfC. By the way, that debate actually stemmed from this condescending lecture I got from an editor on my talk page after I moved the template from the bottom of an article, where he had placed it, to the top. In any case, thanks for requesting the close. Czoal (talk) 08:12, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

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Believe it or not, I'm popping by because I think your perspective may be useful here:

LOL. I'll have a look at it.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  22:12, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

I went with Sminthopsis's idea, which retains all the info, but puts the animal stuff in its own article.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  01:37, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

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 – I didn't even notice this in time.

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Please comment on

Talk:African American

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The

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 – Leading up to Halloween, everyone and their dog was already going to be editing that page.

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 On hold until 08:31, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

 – I have to defer this until later unless this request is received favorably.

You are being contacted because you contributed to a recent discussion of MOS:IDENTITY that closed with the recommendation that Wikipedia's policy on transgender individuals be revisited.

Two threads have been opened at the Village Pump:Policy. The first addresses how the Manual of Style should instruct editors to refer to transgender people in articles about themselves (which name, which pronoun, etc.). The second addresses how to instruct editors to refer to transgender people when they are mentioned in passing in other articles. Your participation is welcome. Darkfrog24 (talk) 02:41, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

As I think you know, I'm temporarily unable to contribute to that discussion. Thanks for the notice, anyway; I doubt that the issues surrounding the specific page section in question will resolve themselves somehow in a single month, so I'll probably weigh in on it after the TB expires.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  03:12, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

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Flags to right of them, flags to left of them, flags in front of them, flutter'd and wave'd.

SMcC, FYI: [1]. I trust you agree that tagging Russian ballet dancers with national flag icons is an inappropriate use. It's kind of funny, but whenever there's a MOS:ICON dust-up on the talk pages, it's always a sports-related article that is trotted out. Personally, I think national flag icons for ballerinas and dinosaur fossils are a lot more egregious, but I suppose there are those flag-waving apatosaurs and raptors that espouse nationalist tendencies too. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 09:20, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1: Can't do anything about it right now (see on-hold note).  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  18:55, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Understood; I was thinking your t-ban only extended to editing MOS provisions, but broadly construed this obviously touches on MOS. Sorry to bother you. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 18:57, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

No prob. I'm hoping the frequency with which people keep asking for my input on matters blockaded by the TBan will get the TBan lifted early, but so far the request has been sitting there for weeks. My guess is the TBan will expire before the request is acted upon. [shrug]. As for "broadly construed", the admin in question did in fact extend it directly to at least one article (even though that appears to violate the scope of

WP:ARBATC), so I'm not taking any chances. The closest to a chance I'm taking is commenting on style matters in article talk from a strictly external-sources perspective, e.g. what Oxford /Hart's and Chicago say about comma usage.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢

 ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  00:19, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Done, now that the TBan has been voided (and it would have expired by now anyway).  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  03:08, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

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 – When I edit sports articles, it's non-team sports like most cue sports; team sports already get way more attention than they need.

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Tribscent08 is a

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WP:GREATWRONGS activists on long-game campaigns to manipulate our coverage (see, e.g., top item on my user page re: Pakistan). There's a lot of that going on with regard to GMOs, e-cigs, even linguistic matters. [sigh]  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢

 ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  23:34, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Oh yes, this is very much the case. I am increasingly convinced that there will eventually have to be a body on Wikipedia that can make binding decisions on content. Guy (Help!) 23:57, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Surely. And we have a countervailing problem that all of the dispute-resolution mechanisms under

WP:DR cannot be used except in a content dispute, other than running to ArbCom and spending a month pretending to be an attorney with a bunch of people pretending to be a court, or throwing the dice at ANI, where you will win or lose based on how popular you are with whoever shows up that day, and mostly as a factor of how good you are at being concise and sweet-sounding for the 15 seconds you have people's attention. This dual problem is insanely gameable. If you're a NOTHERE PoV-pusher, you can use one set of tactics and approaches to weasel and skew the content, dancing around the usual DR processes, but ultimately immune to ArbCom as long as you're good at the "civil-PoV" game; meanwhile using a different set of tactics to warp policy and processes (especially to make it easier to keep doing what you're doing to the content), knowing that there's almost no DR recourse available to stop you. All it takes is patience and skill at verbal manipulation to get your opponents to look like the bad guys, and political acumen in persuading people you're not really doing anything wrong. If this double-backdoor is not closed, it will eventually be the death of WP, because all the paid advocates, fringe loons, and propaganda agents will slowly become admins and take the place over, as they gain ground and force out actual encyclopedist editors who oppose them. This is an already ongoing, slow-motion coup d'état.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢

 ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  06:05, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

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Greeetings

It seems you have been working on culture related some articles too. I am requesting your kind guidance for change of name of one article. When I started working on a new article recently, presently named

Please let me know your openion and if you are positive to my suggessions what should be the new articles name ? In fact you can join in discussion at

Looking forward to your kind guidance

Thanks and warm regards Mahitgar (talk) 10:56, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

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 – I thought about it, having an interest in this topic, but did not have time for it.

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