User talk:Thryduulf/archive14

This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

Tx for supporting my Arb motion. Lately it occurred to me however the crux of the problem was probably not so much kafkaeske conditions being imposed on someone, but that person unscrupulously imposing them on others. No amount of arbcom remedy (rewrites) would probably change that.

I had hoped at least ArbCom would have reminded the person that also remedy 3.3 of the infoboxes case is still in force (no battleground behaviour!). Maybe some day the person understands. Maybe not. But from my side, no regrets the motion has been canned. --Francis Schonken (talk) 16:00, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

The problem from my point of view is that the arbitration sanctions have instead of stopping the infoboxes dispute's impact on the encyclopaedia it has made it worse by requiring

WP:OWNERSHIP and all the battleground behaviour that comes with that. I have hopes that one day the committee will see the mistake that it has made and act. Instead it has yet again refused point blank to even consider the possibility that it isn't all sweetness and light - very much a head in the sand attitude. Thryduulf (talk

) 22:19, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Yes, agree. Under current conditions they are leaving the work to us chickens every time we come across such ownership-oriented editors, to get the situation defused. I'll be still more uncompromising on ownership issues from now on I suppose, at least that's what I took from the arbcom motion proceedings I initiated. --Francis Schonken (talk) 07:46, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

You're a day early, but thank you! Thryduulf (talk) 21:56, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

I see almost everything coming ahead, as if it were laid down in the stars or a ready-reckoner, or perhaps calendar, my child. It is all written in the stars, and in this diary my aunt gave me. The only exception to my plan of life is whatever the wife says, for that will be done, whether I like it or not, but is never predicted by the oriel. Si Trew (talk) 22:10, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

Recent improvements

TemplateData

Looking ahead

You can influence VisualEditor's design. Tell the VisualEditor team what you want changed during the office hours via IRC. The next sessions are on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC and on Wednesday 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC. You can also share your ideas at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.

— Whatamidoing (WMF) 20:41, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

The picture of Wotton House on Commons for which you reverted my change is of the one in Surrey. It should not be given the category Wotton House because that one is in Buckinghamshire. Thats why I removed it. I suggest you do now.Plucas58 (talk) 17:10, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

I've undone my edit. It was the combination of removing that category and the removal of the The Iron Bridge category from another image that made me think this was in error. Thryduulf (talk) 19:56, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

I might have a pic for Wootton House which I can freely share (taken by my family). Can you ping me to remind me. I think it is about 1959. Si Trew (talk) 16:21, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to

) 00:05, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

RfD nov 9 10 and 11

Any idea why they are missing on these dates? Did I do somethng by mistake to knock them out? I don't want to bother you unnecessarily but it seems a bit odd to me. Si Trew (talk) 16:19, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Erm, afaict they are not missing. Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 November 9, Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 November 10 and Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 November 11 are all blue links for me. They will not be transcluded onto the main RfD page until that day (i.e. tomorrow UTC for November 9). Thryduulf (talk) 16:35, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, I think I am a complete idiot, since it is (was) only 8 November. Si Trew (talk) 01:01, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the RfD template at the Awake! redirect. Twinkle failed to automatically add the template, and it's been so long since I've done it manually that I'd forgotten which template was the right one.--Jeffro77 (talk) 07:44, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue X, October 2014 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: National Library Conference; Feminist Art Edit-a-thon Finland report: Edit-a-thon Course "Bring Culture to Wikipedia" France report: Edit-a-thon & Mass upload Germany report: GLAM on tour Sauerland; WMDE World Café at the Conference of National Cultural Institutions Italy report: War Books; EAGLE project; National Library Conference Netherlands report: Images donated by Nijmegen municipality archive; World Day for Audiovisual Heritage Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments; Europeana Task Force UK report: The breadth of UK GLAM work: chemistry, ballet, tanks and more USA report: News from Philadelphia & New York City Open Access report: Open Access Week; peer-reviewed OA journal publishes Wikipedia article Calendar: November's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Thanks for that revert, I must have slipped and saved it by mistake, was not my intention to subvert the discussion. Si Trew (talk) 08:57, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments, and for leaving notes on the article talk pages. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:24, 15 November 2014 (UTC).

You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to

) 00:06, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your input on the wiki markup RFD!

Hey Thryduulf, I just wanted to reach out and say thank you for taking the time to analyze the status of the huge amount of redirects that I had nominated. At this time, I have nothing to debate or add to your comments. (However, that may be subject to change if I have more time, or if I think of something else.) I also wanted to come here to say ... if you believe that my nomination would be better off going through the RfC process in one way or another, I will in no way oppose. (I thought that the technical complications behind these redirects would have been merit enough for the majority of these to be clearly deleted, so thus, I didn't nominate then separately. [Though I was unsure about nominating '', considering that its usefulness is blatantly obvious, but ended up nominating it anyways since it falls in the scope of my concern regarding all of the redirects I nominated.] However, I also believe that if one person thinks this way, then there are most likely others who think the same.) Steel1943 (talk) 00:27, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

No I think RfD is the correct process to use for these. If I was nominating this many though I'd probably have broken them into chunks (perhaps alphabetically) and nominated them over several days to make it easier to digest - but that might have resulted in less input and/or just "per yesterday" type comments so it's a toss-up who is right.

Generally I don't see the need for these redirects, and I would discourage their creation (but as several I've seen have been the result of different people independently trying to achieve what {{italic title}} does, that's not going to do much; and I just know that a title blacklist would get in the way of something somewhere!) but there are ones that are seeing significant use or have some other reason they should be kept. A way to see what traffic is bot driven would help (possibly coming AIUI) and which comes from internal links and which comes from outside Wikipedia would be very helpful though (not possible afaik). Which leaves the requirement to make some educated guesses, and I always err on the side of keeping something if it seems likely people are using it. Thryduulf (talk) 00:55, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:Imran Khan. Should you wish to respond, your contribution to this discussion will be appreciated. For tips, please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment § Suggestions for responding. If you wish to change the frequency or topics of these notices, or do not wish to receive them any longer, please adjust your entries at WP:Feedback request service. — Legobot (talk) 00:07, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

I have proposed a closure to the dispute as most parties seem to have understand the opposing views and simply disagree with them and there appears to be a consensus, as an uninvolved editor I would appreciate you weighing in here. SPACKlick (talk) 02:12, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I've only just seen it, so far too late to comment, but I am happy with teh outcome. Thryduulf (talk) 18:01, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy). Should you wish to respond, your contribution to this discussion will be appreciated. For tips, please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment § Suggestions for responding. If you wish to change the frequency or topics of these notices, or do not wish to receive them any longer, please adjust your entries at WP:Feedback request service. — Legobot (talk) 00:03, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

dear Thry,

Am I just my usual idiot or every time I go to edit section I get the whole page for that day (at RfD) not just the section. That is a change. It is not that I cannot be bothered to track it – I shall – but the usual business if you edit a section is that it edits a section, not the entire section.

I make it plain. Editing an entry on "Fitzrovia" on "12 December 2014" does not lead you to "2014_December_12#Fitzrovia". Call me mr stupid but I spend most of my time editing articles and improving them. Something has changed but I can't put my finger on it, but now every time I make a contribution to RfD it has the whole day;s page when I just wnat the one bloody item. And then I cock it up by editing another item when I meant to put one at the bottom. You know me well enough, I am no stranger to cock-ups, but that is absurd.

but also I should like to say, Merry Christmas all to you and yours. Another year survived and improved by good people like thee and I hope me trying to make things better. I know you are perfect and I am not very good, but I try. I hope at least I have made it a little better.

May your god go with you.

S.

Hi Thry,

Where should we announce it? I imagine it is kinda common knowledge, but my search here in Hungary has nothing about it. I think it will be 8 anuary but was ust announced at the end of the programme as "Our guests will be, Jimmy Wales [I think Jimmy was announced by the chairman David Dimbleby not "James" etc] and other boring politicians [my edit]." I know RfD was the wrong forum, but pace there is no other, really. I have no idea how to submit to Signpost, I just humbly gnome in the background. I get enough abuse about that. I edited a parish rag with 500 delivery for four years and had it set up in type and had to correct middle class English from this comprehensive inky who knows a split infinitive when he sees one, a special pleasure of mine telling the high middle classes that "the hoi polloi" is not good because "hoi" means "the", see fowler, and see them squirm from this poor comprehensive kiddy. I also beat the hell of em out of them at some village do at scrabble, and I wasn't even do ing the nips and tucks but laid some Shakespearean word and was called on it. And of course it is in Shakespeare. Never think a comprehensive schoolboy is thick. I have been fighting tha all my life and will continue to do so. That is about the only chip on my shoulder. When someone assumes I am thick because I speak with a cockney accent, my word you have my hackles up. And I even know what hackles are.

Take your laughs where you can. I still wish you a merry Christmas. I think I signed S. last time, which is how i usually sign in real life, but you can have Si Trew (talk) 18:13, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue XI, November 2014 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: ALIA partnership goes countrywide Belgium report: Workshops for collection holders across Europe; Founding event of Wikimedia Belgium; Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg; Plantin-Moretus Museum; Edit-a-thon at faculty library in Ghent University; Image donation UGentMemorie; Upcoming activities France report: Wiki Loves Monuments; mass upload; Musée de Bretagne Germany report: Facts, fun and free content Ireland report: Ada Lovelace day in Dublin Italy report: National Library Conference; Wiki Loves Monuments; Archaeological Open Data; BEIC Netherlands report: Video challenge; Wikidata workshop and hackathon; Wikipedia courses in libraries; WWII editathon Norway report: Edit-a-thon far north at the Museum of Nordland (Nordlandsmuseet) Spain report: Picasso, first Galipedia edit-a-thon, course in Biblioteca Reina Sofía and free portraits South Africa report: Wiki Loves GLAMs, Cape Town Sweden report: Use, reuse and contributions back and forth UK report: Medals, maps and multilingual marvels Special story: ORCID identifiers Open Access report: Open proposal: Wikidata for Research; Open Access signalling Tool testing report: Tools for references, images, video, file usage; Popular Pages Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Make us proud. 86.106.137.3 (talk) 02:25, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

I will do my best. Thryduulf (talk) 02:32, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

I came also for congratulations! So far arbitration was (for me at least, as you watched,) a synonym for waste of time, and ideally it shouldn't even be needed, - let's work on that ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:15, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Indeed, you had the misfortune to be involved in the case that was the committee's low point over the past few years. I'm going to do my best to make sure nobody else has that experience. Thryduulf (talk) 08:29, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

My experience is nothing compared to Andy's, - did you see my Kafka comment of expectation? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:40, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

My condolences on your election. ;-)

I hope that you turn out to be one of those amazing people who can be exposed to the worst problems in the community every day, and still remain optimistic about our future. Good luck, WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:16, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Congratulations on your success in the elections and welcome onto the 2015 Arbitration Committee. In the next few days we will induct you and the other new arbitrators. Please email arbcom-en-clists.wikimedia.org from the email address you wish to use for registration on the various private wikis and mailing lists. Please also indicate which, if any, of the checkuser and oversight permissions you wish to be assigned for your term (if you don't already hold both).

Over the coming days, you will receive a small number of emails. Please carefully read them. If they are automated registration emails, please follow the instructions in them to finalise registration. You can contact me or GorillaWarfare (the designated newbie contacts) directly if you have difficulty with the induction process. Lastly, you must identify to the Wikimedia Foundation prior to being appointed. Please promptly go to the Identification Noticeboard and follow the instructions linked there if you are not already identified.

Thank you for volunteering to serve on the committee. We very much look forward to working with you this term.

For the Arbitration Committee,

08:35, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for this message. I am toying with the idea of setting up a new email address specifically for arbitration-related matters, so it might be tomorrow before I email to set up registration, etc. Thryduulf (talk) 08:48, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

22:55, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, although it doesn't really feel that Christmasy yet - despite it being the WMUK Christmas Party tomorrow!. Thryduulf (talk) 23:14, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

You poor, poor sod. BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR - David Gerard (talk) 16:46, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese). Should you wish to respond, your contribution to this discussion will be appreciated. For tips, please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment § Suggestions for responding. If you wish to change the frequency or topics of these notices, or do not wish to receive them any longer, please adjust your entries at WP:Feedback request service. — Legobot (talk) 00:06, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Re your comment about the "appallingly written" decision, I find myself wondering if you have any prior experience serving on an authoritative decision making board? NE Ent 12:52, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

I have experience in dispute resolution in the online world, and just shy of a decade's experience of Wikipedia and the need for remedies to say what they mean in the least ambiguous way possible, and of the need for remedies to actually be capable of solving the problem the set out to (which is not true of the infoboxes case remedies as a whole). Thryduulf (talk) 18:58, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

(watching) last time today's favourite edit summary peace and joy - I am convinced that my "remedies" might have worked better, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:12, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Which reads like a "none" -- the key word being "board." As a member of the committee ya'll have as close to absolute power as it gets on English Wikipedia, but as an individual, in theory you have no more cred than you currently have: in practice I think you'll find you have less freedom of moment because begin "arbitrator" puts you in a bit of a glass bowl. (See

WP:Bradspeak

). Your job will be difficult enough without making your fellow committee members look bad by excessively harsh and unnecessary public criticism -- you can't make remedies say anything without the support of the other members.

Incidentally, I couldn't care less about infoboxes. As a reader, if I want to know when Ada Lovelace passed away, what possible difference does it make to me whether the date's in the lead, the Death section, or an infobox? 1852 is 1852. A great tragedy of Wikipedia is editors who care so much and work so hard end up in conflict over things that, in the big scheme of things, aren't really that important. NE Ent 18:25, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

(still watching) I am not interested in infoboxes, no more than in images in articles. Both are nice to have. What got me into a situation that was interpreted as fighting were two things: I don't like people being so interested in "no infobox" that they remove them from articles others wrote (actually that was the reason why the infobox case was requested, - I wasn't asked, would have said nooooooo), and I saw a friend in danger to be banned who hasn't done anything I would call disruptive since 2012 (26 December, to be precise, Cosima Wagner two days after TFA on her birthday, - she is not even a classical composer, actually I wouldn't call it disruptive, but there are others who think a FA should not be edited at all.). - I think the situation improved greatly, and have proclaimed the 2005 infobox wars over more than once. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:05, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

I do not want to rehash the arguments for or against infoboxes here, as that will not be productive, but as a reader I am very appreciative when there is an infobox and I severely disliked the attitude and behaviour of some who disagree. I also think that the remedies in that arbitration case have not resolved the dispute (the number of subsequent amendment and clarification requests does nothing to dispel this view), and the way it required

WP:OWNership of articles has been particularly counter-productive and just further entrenched views. I was not alone in predicting this at the time. My being on the committee does not mean that I cease to have an opinion - especially about the work of committees past. Thryduulf (talk

) 21:31, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for having an opinion and not changing it, - possibly some voted for you because of it ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:50, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-in beta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ProofreadPage).

Recent improvements

Basic support for editing tables is available. You can insert new tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid rowspan and colspan elements, instead of trying to repair them.

You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ⌃ Ctrl+F or ⌘ Cmd+F.

You can now create and edit simple <blockquote> paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "Paragraph" into a "Block quote".

Some new keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "* " will make the line a bullet list; "1. " or "# " will make it a numbered list; "==" will make it a section heading; ": " will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change. There are also two other keyboard sequences: "[[" for opening the link tool, and "{{" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like ⌃ Ctrl+K to open the link editor, still work.

If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.

You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code.

Looking ahead

VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme designed by the User Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at MediaWiki.org in late December and at other sites early January. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" theme and the new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.)

The Editing team plans to add auto-fill features for citations in January. Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.

Help

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Translations of the user guide for most languages are oudated. Ukrainian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Dutch translators are nearly current. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language.
• Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC.
• File requests for language-appropriate "Bold" and "Italic" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.
• The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.

If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta.

Thank you! WhatamIdoing (WMF) (talk) 23:37, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for closing all these RfD discussions. However, where the result is not delete please could you add {{Old RfD}} to the redirect's talk page. When I'm doing that I normally tag the redirect for the same wikiprojects as the target (using class=redirect and no importance parameter), but this is entirely optional. See Talk:Windows X in a couple of minutes for an example. Thryduulf (talk) 22:03, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, I have generally been adding {{Old RfD}}, but I missed that one. Guess I'm still new at the process. 8) -- Beland (talk) 01:08, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

It was the only one I had time to check, so a bit of good/bad luck! Thryduulf (talk) 02:24, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2015!!!

Hello Thryduulf, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2015. Happy editing, -- Ping when replying 03:40, 25 December 2014 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Thank you! Thryduulf (talk) 10:48, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Templates for discussion. Should you wish to respond, your contribution to this discussion will be appreciated. For tips, please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment § Suggestions for responding. If you wish to change the frequency or topics of these notices, or do not wish to receive them any longer, please adjust your entries at WP:Feedback request service. — Legobot (talk) 00:05, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Hello Thryduulf, Happy New Year, and sorry to bother you out of the blue. I watch Tees Transporter Bridge and I was interested by your edit there sorting out the inflation-adjusted figure. If you had a moment, could you please have a quick look at the £3M/£10M thing in Penlee lifeboat disaster#Aftermath (first paragraph), which has a similar issue? I was already concerned about its ambiguous wording, which I've now had a try at; but I think it may need a similar treatment to sort out the year thing, as it is currently showing 2015. I did look at your work on the bridge but I don't feel confident about how the syntax works, so I would be very pleased if you could find time to see to this one too. Sorry for the cheeky request, but thanks! Best wishes DBaK (talk) 22:55, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

No problem at all and now done. The syntax for {{

B-25 Empire State Building crash the other day), but haven't had chance to fix. I'll drop a note on it's talk page - thanks for the reminder! Thryduulf (talk

) 23:10, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

That's brilliant, thank you very much. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 23:34, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Article titles. Should you wish to respond, your contribution to this discussion will be appreciated.

For tips, please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment § Suggestions for responding. If you wish to change the frequency or topics of these notices, or do not wish to receive them any longer, please adjust your entries at WP:Feedback request service. — Legobot (talk) 00:06, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue XII, December 2014 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: Trove in the encyclopedia Germany report: Out now: GLAM on Tour film; Looking back: WMDE discussion rounds 2014 Norway report: Seminar at the NTNU University Museum: uploading images to Wikimedia Commons Spain report: Edith-a-thon about Spanish scientists in six museums Sweden report: Central Museums and Glöggmingel UK report: Going for Gold, map tagging and Histropedia USA report: Wikipedia in New York City Update Special story: Wikidata for cultural heritage Open Access report: Wikidata for research; Open Access Media Importer rewritten; JATS-Con Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

	The Photographer's Barnstar
	For your extra effort in providing photos for an article that another Wikipedian is working on. Exemplary teamwork! w.carter-Talk 17:12, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! Thryduulf (talk) 17:42, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Speedy keep. Should you wish to respond, your contribution to this discussion will be appreciated.

For tips, please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment § Suggestions for responding. If you wish to change the frequency or topics of these notices, or do not wish to receive them any longer, please adjust your entries at WP:Feedback request service. — Legobot (talk) 00:06, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Could you see if the editor who made this diff [2] has any registered accounts and if so quietly have a clerk block them? Thank you. Jehochman ^Talk 05:07, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

I've forwarded your request to the Functionaries list as I am not awake enough myself (it's 5:20am here). Thryduulf (talk) 05:21, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

I've closed the longstanding RFD for Lightning in a tropical cyclone as no consensus with an unusually detailed rationale. Basically, nobody wanted to keep it, but there wasn't consensus on what to do, so I've taken a bold step of un-redirecting it and immediately sending it to AFD to get input from people who don't often show up at RFD. I'd really appreciate your input at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lightning in a tropical cyclone, where I've given a strong suggestion that people pick between the RFD-favored steps of deletion or retargeting to lightning. I'm attempting to notify everyone who participated in the RFD (that's BDD, Ivanvector, Inks.LWC, Guy1890, Steel1943, and Thryduulf), but if I missed someone, please do the notification for me. Nyttend (talk) 18:46, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

On 22 January 2015, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Leon Brittan, which you recently nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page.

--Spencer^T♦C 00:21, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Before casting your vote in the Wifione case, please be sure to have read and understood this thread. If you have any questions, please ask. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 13:22, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Wifione is accused of editing tendentiously and avoiding accountability. The topic area is the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM), its owners and its competitors. A massive sock farm (sockmaster named Mrinl Pandy) dominated the topic area until it was revealed shortly before Wifione arrived. DGG's statement (linked in the last thread on the above-linked page) is a good place to start. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 20:00, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Ban appeals reform 2015. Should you wish to respond, your contribution to this discussion will be appreciated.

For tips, please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment § Suggestions for responding. If you wish to change the frequency or topics of these notices, or do not wish to receive them any longer, please adjust your entries at WP:Feedback request service. — Legobot (talk) 00:02, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

There are reasons I'm saying what I am saying. Please look at the substance of the complaints and what is actually being said. We are dealing with a person with a history of manipulation and dishonesty. If you haven't noticed this same user is trying to use that case as a blunt hammer to gain her ends. I have voluntarily stayed away from Lightbreather because our paths do not cross in article space, my only involvement is seeing a page that is against WMF policies (after massive canvassing it was hard to miss) about discrimination and the SPI which remains in my watchlist. The others have been directly related to the arb case. TKOP assessment is actually quite true but he also misse3s the fact that Lightbreather was pulled into the SPI because she accused me of casting aspersions then too and after a large investigation it was proven true. Please look into the substance, it's vastly important so you won't be manipulated.

) 17:25, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

BTW the committee didn't endorse anything, two arbs were involved in a discussion started by Lightbreather on her talkpage. Again it's the manipulation of the facts surrounding the presentation is vital. I have added enough evidence I think including I believe 5 admin comments showing that TKOP and myself are not in any way casting aspersions.

talk

) 17:33, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Mind keeping it on the case page? Thanks. Lightbreather (talk) 01:49, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Please consider the merits of Salvio's oppose. I think it's the best idea in front of the committee now for this situation and will help vastly address both peoples complaints. Nothing say it has to be a popular result but a fair result that benefits the encyclopedia that stops disruption is the way to go. Those sanctions of admin boards removal is something that has seemed to work well with Tarc. I would ddefintely sacrifice my pride for such an equitable result. It doesn't address the off wiki issues butI don't follow people on private websites and can easily ignore the attack page.

talk

) 14:21, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

The Wikimedia Foundation has named its top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. There will be weekly triage meetings which will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Tell Vice President of Engineering Damon Sicore, Product Manager James Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins.

Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.

Recent improvements

The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki's Front-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the OOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:

• starts a new task, like opening the ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽ dialog:  blue ,
• takes a constructive action, like inserting a citation:  green ,
• might remove or lose your work, like removing a link:  red , or
• is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window:  gray.

The TemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design (T67815) based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor (T73746). This change fixed a couple of existing bugs (T73077 and T73078) and improved usability.

Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once (T78234).

Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedias requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace (T86688, T87027). If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.

Looking ahead

The Editing team will soon add auto-fill features for citations. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.

We will need editors to help test the new design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at Phase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Please help complete translations of the user guide for users who speak your language.
• Join the weekly bug triage meetings beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins. Contact James F. for more information.
• Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 19:00 UTC.

Subscribe or unsubscribe at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter. Translations are available through Meta. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 20:23, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

This article appears to be a copyvio of the nickywicky (Craft's own website, that isn't a wiki, as far as I can tell)... but its hard to be sure, and I haven't attempted to determine by analysis, because there are deeper problems. The article has been extensively edited by users who appear to be Craft and her intimates over the years. Looking back the nature of the Craft's campaigning seems to have been rewritten. I saw that you had some involvement with this article over the years. What, if anything, do you think should be done with this article?

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:01, 6 February 2015 (UTC).

I haven't had anything to do with this article since 2006 and have had to read the first AfD to find out what that involvement was, so I have no opinions about what should be done with it - for that I suggest you use the talk page or a relevant WikiProject. However if you think an article is a copyvio, then follow the instructions at

WP:COPYVIO. I don't have time to do anything about it myself, sorry. Thryduulf (talk

) 10:07, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

No worries, I'll put it on my pile. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:13, 8 February 2015 (UTC).

Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to U.S. Route 66 may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 "()"s. If you have, don't worry: just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page:

• |}
• points on the route. The race ended in Madison Square Garden, where the $25,000 first prize (equal to ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|25000|1928}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} was awarded to [[Andy

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow

) 19:33, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Hello! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in

. Should you wish to respond, your contribution to this discussion will be appreciated.

For tips, please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment § Suggestions for responding. If you wish to change the frequency or topics of these notices, or do not wish to receive them any longer, please adjust your entries at WP:Feedback request service. — Legobot (talk) 00:03, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue I, January 2015 Headlines Belgium report: SOIMA 2015; Wiki Loves Art; European Commission; FOSDEM Czech Republic report: Czech GLAM discusses why institutions are afraid to release their media France report: Celebrating public domain and more Germany report: GLAM on Tour in Wuppertal Italy report: 1600 usages for BEIC images in 165 wikis Netherlands report: Europeana Sounds edit-a-thon; Symposium & Erasmus Prize; Honorary doctorate for Wikipedia; New years drink Spain report: Europeana Fashion Edit-a-thon; Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 Awards ceremony; Benito Prieto Coussent Sweden report: Europeana; Working Life Museums UK report: Armenian Genocide; Diversity in Film; Residency Hat-Trick USA report: Philadelphia & New York Open Access report: Wikidata for research: proposal submitted; Open Access Media Importer: featured media Catalan areas report: Catalan Network of Public Libraries Calendar: February's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Fir the record, no apology was necessary for this edit. Thank you for your attentiveness and kind action. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:38, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. I have to ask though whether applying pine leaves to vinyl is a recommended way of treating LPs? ;) Thryduulf (talk) 11:44, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Debauchery. Since you had some involvement with the Debauchery redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Mr. Guye (talk) 00:29, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

• Just to apologize, as I did not intend to misrepresent. A misunderstanding, perhaps, but at any rate, thank you for the discussion and perhaps we may come to greater understanding in conversation in the future. Again, sorry for the false impression. Alanscottwalker (talk) 21:06, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Hello! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Deletion process. Should you wish to respond, your contribution to this discussion will be appreciated.

For tips, please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment § Suggestions for responding. If you wish to change the frequency or topics of these notices, or do not wish to receive them any longer, please adjust your entries at feedback request service. — Legobot (talk) 00:05, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for understanding "disruption" as I do ;) - I like

) 11:30, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Hello! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (films). Should you wish to respond, your contribution to this discussion will be appreciated.

For tips, please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment § Suggestions for responding. If you wish to change the frequency or topics of these notices, or do not wish to receive them any longer, please adjust your entries at feedback request service. — Legobot (talk) 00:07, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

As the last participant in the Category:Level crossing accidents in the United States CFD, I suggested that it be renamed to Category:Railroad crossing accidents in the United States instead of the proposed Category:Grade crossing accidents in the United States. An admin closed the proposal as "move to Grade crossing...", but he also noted that another CFD regarding my proposal would be a valid option, so I've nominated Grade crossing accidents in the USA for renaming to Railroad crossing accidents in the USA. Please visit Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 March 5 and offer your opinion, if you have one. Nyttend (talk) 02:27, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

I don't care for the term "alma mater" too much, but those who do find it important ;) - I use |education= for all levels and think that it is often important. In my first article, it is of value to know that he studied at three universities in three countries, - a former version (13 March 2013) also listed the teachers because in music it is often interesting whose "pupil" (they still call it that) a performer or composer is. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:00, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, out of the blue, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:17, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Hello! I am soliciting comments for an RfC that is currently open on the "Glengarry Glen Ross (film)" page. There is disagreement about where the film was set (New York vs. Chicago).

One of the issues is whether it is

to cite to elements in the film itself (including props, dialogue, and a statement in the end credits that it was "filmed on location in New York City") to establish setting.

Response so far in the RfC has been mixed. Comments welcome! Xanthis (talk) 13:23, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the invite, but I don't have the time to get involved with a debate about a disagreement about a minor problem with an article I've never edited about a film I didn't know existed. Sorry. Thryduulf (talk) 16:33, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue II, February 2015 Headlines Africa report: Photo Hunt in museum in Uganda Armenia report: Free Book for Wikipedians Belgium report: Conferences & workshops Catalan areas report: Edit-a-thons about archaeology in Gavà and biochemistry in Barcelona Finland report: Hacking Heritage France report: From prehistoric era to pirates: an usual month at WMFR Germany report: Open GLAM is one thing - open funds quite another Greece report: 10th Europeana Fashion Edit-a-thon organised by Athens' Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation Italy report: OCLC conference in Florence; Wiki Loves Monuments exhibition; continued BEIC activities Netherlands report: Report of activities: February Poland report: Developing GLAM collaborations in Poland Spain report: Workshops at Reina Sofía Library in Valladolid Sweden report: Strange noise, public art and old maps Switzerland report: First Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon UK report: Continued Catalan Collaboration; Steam Sounds; Glasgow GLAMs; Edinburgh Editathons USA report: Wikipedia in Philadelphia (and Ocean City, MD!) Special story: Europeana's Wikimedia Task Force reports Open Access report: Tracking recent uploads; Wikidata for research meetups; Ant-decapitating flies, Lego and a new frog Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Orlando and I don't have any interaction issues. MarkBernstein is upset with both of us (and Dreadstar). This blew up when MB posted a number of requests. He's topic banned so the drama should be amped down anyway. You can review the actions but it isn't multiple parties filing multiple requests, it's one party (MB) taking out his frustration first on the topic-banning admin Dreadstar at ANI and ARCA, then Orlando at AE (for Orlando's comment at ARCA) and then me (for my comment at MB's Orlando AE filing). Gamaliel might have been frustrated by Mark's fourth filing in 24 hours but the issue is resolved with Mark's topic ban. Everyone seems to have a solution in search of a problem that was resolved when the topic-ban was enforced. If you'll note there is no diffs presented of behavior issues because they don't exist. --DHeyward (talk) 18:44, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Reference desk. Legobot (talk) 00:06, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Sheesh, I just saw you posted at RfD (somewhere in the middle).

I for one really missed you there. I tried to hold the fort but you do better than I do with the admin stuff and closures

So great to see you back. that's made my morning. Si Trew (talk) 02:52, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

I can't promise to be back full time - arbcom is slack at the moment and I had some time yesterday, but I'll do what I can. Thryduulf (talk) 10:03, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

"as long as the one it isn't at is a redirect." Suggest you say what it should redirect to. (You probably meant "to the other" but just letting you know this isn't clear.) Prhartcom (talk) 04:29, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Cheers, that is indeed what I meant. I thought it was clear, but as it apparently isn't I'll go and make it explicit. Thryduulf (talk) 04:37, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

I don't mean to be critical, but now "the one it isn't the article" also isn't clear. Cheers. Prhartcom (talk) 04:43, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

That's what you get for doing things at 4:30am. I've changed "the one it isn't" to "the one that isn't" and now I'm going to bed! Thryduulf (talk) 04:48, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Linking. Legobot (talk) 00:10, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

I don't know how much you keep stats on these things, but I recall your saying before "Oh this is the first time in 759 days that nothing has been listed". Here's another for your book, then!

Best regards as always Si Trew (talk) 06:50, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

See Wikipedia talk:Redirects for discussion ;) Thryduulf (talk) 09:25, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's performance, the Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 11:00 (noon) PDT (18:00 UTC). You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal.

Recent improvements

VisualEditor is now substantially faster. In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% and network speed by almost 40%.

The Editing team is slowly adding auto-fill features for citations. This is currently available only at the French, Italian, and English Wikipedias. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections by contributing to the Citoid service's definitions for each website.

Citoid requires good TemplateData for your citation templates. If you would like to request this feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.

The special character inserter has been improved, based upon feedback from active users. After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on the Phase 5 list on 30 March. This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh.

Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese. These languages use

("IMEs”). Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.

The design for the image selection process is now using a "masonry fit" model. Images in the search results are displayed at the same height but at variable widths, similar to bricks of different sizes in a masonry wall, or the "packed" mode in image galleries. This style helps you find the right image by making it easier to see more details in images.

You can now drag and drop categories to re-arrange their order of appearance ​on the page.

The pop-up window that appears when you click on a reference, image, link, or other element, is called the "context menu". It now displays additional useful information, such as the destination of the link or the image's filename. The team has also added an explicit "Edit" button in the context menu, which helps new editors open the tool to change the item.

Invisible templates are marked by a puzzle piece icon so they can be interacted with. Users also will be able to see and edit HTML anchors now in section headings.

Users of the TemplateData GUI editor can now set a string as an optional text for the 'deprecated' property in addition to boolean value, which lets you tell users of the template what they should do instead (T90734).

Looking ahead

The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Instructions for customizing the list will be posted at mediawiki.org.

The team is discussing a test of VisualEditor with new users, to see whether they have met their goals of making VisualEditor suitable for those editors. The timing is unknown, but might be relatively soon.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Can you translate from English into any other language? Please check this list to see whether more interface translations are needed for your language. Contact us to get an account if you want to help!
• The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
• File requests for language-appropriate "Bold" and "Italic" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.

Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at Meta. If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

-Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk), 17:50, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Medical disclaimer. Legobot (talk) 00:08, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

. . . my request here. Writegeist (talk) 03:10, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. Writegeist (talk) 16:41, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue III, March 2015 Headlines Africa report: Closing the gap of the Global South Belgium report: Gendergap and Belgiumgap Catalan areas report: One day at the radio France report: A very busy month! Germany report: 1 topic, 2 talks, 3 hours Italy report: Agreements with national cultural institutions and professional associations Mexico report: Wiki rides the subway editathon and second edition of the Editatona gender gap marathon Netherlands report: Nature, Art, Feminism and a GLAM-WIKI conference Poland report: Six months in Spain report: Women's edit-a-thons, Workshops and Miguel Delibes Sweden report: Fashion; BARK; Council of Central Museums UK report: GLAM activities in the UK USA report: Wikipedia in Philadelphia & New York Open Access report: Wikimania Open Access policy; Wikimania; Wikipedia Science Conference; Punch-card microfluidics Calendar: April's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

While I was looking at links to

) 01:33, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! Thryduulf (talk) 09:23, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Re: a pending issue. Thanks OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 09:53, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Greetings, Thryduulf. I have a question for you, @Seraphimblade: and @NativeForeigner: since I see you listed as the lead Arbs in the "American politics 2" case. With less than 24 hours remaining before the close of the Evidence phase of the case, I see that I have not been added by motion as a party to that case. I am relieved by this, as I was really not looking forward to having to defend myself against the handful of baseless charges wherein my name was mentioned by one named party seeking to have me join him. Since the Arbs are aware that one individual wanted to have me added, but the only accusations he produced were "still rather out of scope here", I figure that is why I haven't been dragged into the fray. I understand how hectic things can get on the many pages of an ArbCom case (even one as dormant as this case appears to be), so I'm pinging you guys here for one last reassurance that I'm not going to receive an unwanted surprise as that case progresses. Regards, Xenophrenic (talk) 00:51, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

As nobody has present evidence about you, it is very unlikely you will be added as a party. There is a small chance that something brought up in the workshop phase might involve you, particularly if you make relevant actions between now and when the case closes (in the topic area or on the case pages) so we cannot guarantee that you wont be a party, but it seems very unlikely this will happen. It is worth stressing again though that being listed as a party is not an indication, assumption or allegation of wrongdoing. Thryduulf (talk) 08:47, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the response. Nobody has presented evidence against me within the scope of American politics, true, but just so there is no confusion, one editor has indeed posted a small section of accusations about me from our interactions outside of the scope of this case. That is what caused me concern, and prompted my question above. I understand your point that being listed as a party ≠ indication of wrongdoing, but the unfortunate reality is that once an editor is listed as a party, the dynamic changes for that editor from "innocent until proven guilty" to "guilty until proven innocent". That is why I am happy to see that I haven't been added as a party. Regards, Xenophrenic (talk) 20:40, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion. Legobot (talk) 00:05, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Board of Longitude, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Thomas Young. 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) 09:24, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

... see User talk:Redrose64#There are no MPs. Also Sheepwash Channel, Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge, Rewley Road Swing Bridge, Castle Mill Stream, Isis Lock, Oxford Canal, Hythe Bridge. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:32, 19 April 2015 (UTC)