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I've seen how much you hate paid editors, and continuously making an effort to stop them, I really grateful to have you here on English Wikipedia :D .-- AldNon Ucallin?☎ 15:43, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks again for your efforts! Go Phightins ! 16:04, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold,
I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."
Luke 2:10-11 (King James Version)
Chris Troutman ( talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas.
This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove.
FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 02:54, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
Hello Smallbones: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, DBig Xrayᗙ Happy Holidays! 18:35, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Did I miss a discussion about who we collectively honor? |
George Bellows, North River (1908), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. |
Best wishes for a healthy and prosperous 2020. | |
Thank you for your contributions toward making Wikipedia a better and more accurate place. BoringHistoryGuy ( talk) 12:39, 30 December 2019 (UTC) |
LovelyLillith ( talk) has bought you a whisky! Sharing a whisky is a great way to bond with other editors after a day of hard work. Spread the WikiLove by buying someone else a whisky, whether it be someone with whom you have collaborated or had disagreements. Enjoy!
Thank you for your warm holiday wishes! I understand many journalist-types enjoy a little bit of spirit to get them through tough editing deadlines, so here’s a glass raised both to your work at the Signpost as well as in hope for a good 2020. - Cheers, Lil
Spread the good cheer and camaraderie by adding {{ WikiScotch}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Message received at 13:41, 1 January 2020 (UTC)Happy New Year | |
Dear Smallbones, Best wishes to you and yours in 2020! Happy New Year! Mary Mark Ockerbloom ( talk) 16:58, 1 January 2020 (UTC) |
A supposition: the material oversighted from Pete Buttigieg was not removed because it contained a link to this Slate article. It was removed because it named a person and their alleged Wikipedia username. The link is not the issue (as I keep demonstrating). Saying that a reliable source has alleged that Pete Buttigieg may have edited his own Wikipedia page is not the issue. @ Levivich: Sounds reasonable?
A suggestion: Drop the hyperbole about censorship of the press. Report the story as you would any other news item involving Wikipedia. See what happens. If there are any threats or blocks, you will have your censorship story. If there aren't, you will have reported the original item as you had intended before this all started. What do you think?
Bitter Oil (
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User:MER-C/AdminStats - what was deleted, blocked or protected in 2019?
Quick conclusions:
It's not likely that I will have enough time to do a writeup for the next Signpost. MER-C 08:38, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
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the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpretedrather than
reasonably construed.
Read this and then check out the history here. Bitter Oil ( talk) 22:27, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
FYI, I have followed your lead and your use of source in List of Presbyterian churches in Pennsylvania to develop American Presbyterian/Reformed Historic Sites Registry (in progress), which will list all the Presbyterian historic sites. And in progress about adding items to corresponding disambiguation pages like First Presbyterian Church and Buffalo Presbyterian Church. It will further then be a big job to mention all those that are churches then in the corresponding state sections of List of Presbyterian churches in the United States. And to change all the NRHP-listed ones' articles to mention the APRHS listings. I am hopeful this is worthwhile; hopeful that the sources are substantial; not completely sure.
By the way I emailed request for copies of the two volumes " On holy ground" and "On holy ground II" about the first 200 American Presbyterian/Reformed Historical Sites, published by the Presbyterian Historical Society in 1982 and 1999. So far I have gotten just an automated reply. I am hopeful about these being good sources. Did you happen to get these? -- Doncram ( talk) 19:01, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
I don't know if you remember it, but it looks like you are about to win Wikipedia:Six-million pool. ☆ Bri ( talk) 20:58, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
Thanks,
Smallbones( smalltalk) 05:08, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
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I noticed in the newsroom for the Signpost you have a draft idea for community view on the most important Wikipedia articles since 2015; I'd like to propose the Donna Strickland one, for how it displayed popular views of Wikipedia's content gaps, the media's (mis)understanding of Wikipedia, and, as best exemplified here, for showing how a diverse team of editors from across the globe worked in tandem to expand, enhance, and translate the article across the encyclopedia. - Indy beetle ( talk) 23:18, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
Just wanted to confirm receipt of your email of 22 January 2020, which I received at 18:32 UTC today. Unfortunately, I have commitments off-wiki that do not permit me to provide you with the requested information before the relevant deadline - I note the 24 January 23:59 UTC writing deadline for the next issue. Perhaps it would be helpful to make such requests earlier than 36 hours prior to the end of the writing deadline in the future, especially when the request involves activities taken a couple of months in the past. I'm sorry that I can't help you on such short notice. Risker ( talk) 06:46, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
And I don't want to leave you hanging with expectations but RL and out-of-country travel has limited my input for the next few weeks or longer. My apologies... Atsme Talk 📧 16:07, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
Depends on the definition of "important" but the most important event to Americans was on the night of November 8, 2016, when Donald J. Trump was called the winner by major news broadcasts. Probably we do not have a new article for that event.-- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 19:06, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
Sorry to spring this on you last minute, but I've almost finished writing a special report for the next edition of the Signpost regarding Brian Boulton. Any chance there's still time to include it? – MJL ‐Talk‐ ☖ 21:41, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
I fixed a few dab links in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/In the media [1]. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 21:30, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
After overseeing another great and successful edition of the Signpost, and writing a spot on editorial, you must be pretty tired. Hopefully this cuppa will perk you up and keep ya going! CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n! ⚓ 06:53, 27 January 2020 (UTC) |
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For a very large amount of hours for this month's issue of The Signpost and its many pieces. ↠Pine (✉) 04:58, 28 January 2020 (UTC) |
Smallbones, it's an impressive outcome this month. Tony (talk) 10:19, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
Heya Smallbones, I just asked Llywrch to close the Status Labs ToU RFC and I just want to ask what your Foundation Legal contacts say about it. Please let them know Doc James is sharing it with the Board and ask them if there is anything else the community can do to get enforcement action going.
Also how do you feel about reaching out to Upwork to see if we can get them to, for example, flag postings that mention Wikipedia, perhaps requiring them include the names of specific articles and subject matter that the prospective employers are asking to hire editors for, and providing the text of them somewhere so we can keep a closer eye on abuses? Their high-profile Chief Economist Adam Ozimek is a long-time Wikipedia fan who might be our best contact for such a request. I know someone said that they had offered to forbid requests for Wikipedia-related work if we changed our ToU to eliminate all paid editing, but we might be able to get more effective COI rules enforcement by getting a stream of article names to scrutinize (i.e., instead of driving the requests underground into postings which don't mention Wikipedia at all.) Please let me know what you think. EllenCT ( talk) 01:36, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
The recently closed near unanimous call for action speaks to the persuasiveness of your op-ed. Several of the !voters mentioned it specifically, and I'm sure many more either read it or were persuaded by those who did. Thanks for your staying power on this crucial issue. ☆ Bri ( talk) 07:02, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
Do you want to try to open a discussion with Upwork, Smallbones? If you do, I don't want to interfere, but if you don't, I'd like to. EllenCT ( talk) 22:32, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
@ Smallbones: Hello?!? I know someone who knows Adam Ozimek, UpWork's chief economist. Adam has offered to help, and has asked for a description of what we need be emailed to him. Would you like to take it from here? EllenCT ( talk) 18:15, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
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wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.
that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.
The Signpost's "in the media" section did not get oversighted. No one was threatened with a block. Nothing was removed from Stuart_Anderson_(politician)#Allegations_of_Wikipedia_editing. Can we agree that the Signpost was not censored in any way? Can we further agree that it in all likelihood nothing would have happened had you published the Pete Buttigieg incident as written? You had said that you were going to take the Buttigieg case to ARBCOM - do you still plan to do that? There's still a disconnect between WP:OUTING and WP:RS even if oversighters chose not to enforce it consistently. Bitter Oil ( talk) 23:48, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
Looks
to me. EllenCT ( talk) 18:20, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Smallbones, I saw that you commented on the talk page discussion of irrelevant speeches on the Oval Office address article. Unfortunately, it seems most of the other users in that discussion are no longer active on Wikipedia. I wanted to reach out to you to see if you could weigh in on a content dispute between an anon user and me (See https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Oval_Office_address&action=history). The anon keeps trying to restore non-Oval Office addresses to the list and even made an attempt to rename the page as "Address to the Nation" instead. I have been removing addresses that did not take place in the Oval Office. OCNative ( talk) 09:08, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
How are we doing with that? In January I talked to Polish Wikimedians (ping User:Klarqa) who told me they tried to get back to you and put you in touch with her agents, but then the communication broke down...? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 13:12, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
I thought this [3] was pretty funny. Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 14:24, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
I reverted probable vandalism on this page [4], as I assumed you're still the Editor in Chief. I'm not sure if vandalism warnings should be used outside of mainspace, but I thought I should let you know in case there's anything else I should do. I was a bit hesitant to revert 8 edits, but they all appeared to be distruptive. Clovermoss (talk) 09:10, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
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must notundo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than
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I am a novice editor reviving a WikiProject. The assessment system was the draw. There seems to a sense that the day of the project is done. SOME SUITABLE RASPBERRY! Even this week WikiProject COVID-19 began. I assume for that assessment system. There is activity for those who can see it past the defunct, inactive, and ”not the new hotness” of tooling. —¿philoserf? ( talk) 06:51, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I'm Jenhawk777. I have been keeping tabs on the Jytdog case and saw your contribution there. I just wanted you to know I empathize with how difficult this is to revisit, and say that I completely and totally admire you for stepping up and doing it anyway. Jytdog completely ran me off Wikipedia. I guess I wasn't as strong as you, but he was driving me insane--literally. He showed up on every article I worked on and obstructed everything I did. Anyway, that's done now and hopefully they won't let him come back. Thank you for being brave enough to speak up. Jenhawk777 ( talk) 18:31, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
I'm having no problems, it's just that the Top 25 Report is requiring more effort since Andrew.g's tool fell in January, given we have to compile the data for the list along with writing about the entries... and of course, this one will be nearly monothematic, and if I copied the structure from last time, the title'd be "In the hospital" or "In social isolation" (damn coronavirus). igordebraga ≠ 21:38, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
Can I email you? No Swan So Fine ( talk) 18:01, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
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I'm loving your research and work. I have no idea what a barnstar is. Dstrichit ( talk) 03:27, 3 April 2020 (UTC) |
Hi, I think I've seen you doing a lot of the work putting The Signpost together, yes? I wanted to suggest that the next issue might cover the work that GreenC and others have done to prevent an upcoming change at the Census Bureau's website from impacting tens of thousands of links in Wikipedia articles (see here and Wikipedia:US Census Migration). I don't know all the details, but I think it's a huge behind-the-scenes effort that people should be aware of. Thanks! Schazjmd (talk) 00:47, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Just to let you know that I mentioned you here. Regards, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 14:49, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
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Thanks for that. Considering over 3000 people watch that page and given that we have over 3 million stubs the response has been underwhelming to say the least. There's currently 1105 articles (the women bios are counted twice) and now 25 people signed up. The plan isnt to start a 1 million Destubbing Challenge as realistically that would take over a 100 years!! but I was just thinking about how many potential contributors we could have and the fact we have over 3 million stubs! We need more people actively working on improving existing articles.† Encyclopædius 06:07, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
You might also want to mention the Summer Focus of the Week feature planned.† Encyclopædius 17:49, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Let me know if you need anything further. Happy to help with formatting for the SP if needed. - Pete Forsyth ( talk) 21:28, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I thought it might be nice if Signpost notified the community when one ours passes away, an Obituary sort of thing like most newspapers have. I set something up for myself that notifies when someone dies. I could do the same for yourself or any other editor at Signpost. For example it notified me today that User:Marcus334 passed away who looks like an interesting person. -- Green C 15:19, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
... see here. There is a reason the case name was changed from "drug pricing" to "medicine". SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 18:52, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
I wasn't aware that we are no longer allowed to copyedit articles, but do you think you could take a look at my edit and its subsequent revert and the reader comment that brought it about. For what it's worth, I was going to make this change in pre-publication c/e-ing but didn't want to conflict with publication as you had already asked Chris to publish. Eddie891 Talk Work 21:24, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hi - I see you've just sent me a mail, but unfortunately I cannot read it. Don't know what setting I've got wrong! Charlesjsharp ( talk) 16:03, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
Cheers! BD2412 T 02:51, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
For showing initiative in the pursuit of a rather silly goal, not being jerks and following Wikipedia's first and most important rule, Ignore all rules, I hereby give my endorsement to team IHouseScav2020 for the 2020 U of C scavenger hunt. Smallbones( smalltalk) 13:45, 17 May 2020 (UTC) (AP, ECo, IP, Rv) - should be worth 6 points
Hi Smallbones! I've been thinking about potentially helping out a bit more with the Signpost. I'm a journalist in my off-wiki life, so I'd be able to help out with editing pieces (both in the picky copy editing sense and the broader making editorial judgments sense). When I've tried to take a look at the newsroom recently, though, it appears I'm normally either too early or too late to be of much help. So if you find yourself needing help, feel free to send me a ping. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 03:33, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
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- no room, or ???? Atsme Talk 📧 13:53, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
I'm not totally against using the perfect storm image (at the top), but in general I find that the perfect storm analogy is overused. I liked the movie, where an actual storm was described as something like a once-in-a-lifetime event. But there must have been 300 perfect storm analogies in the next year! My personal quota for these analogies is about 1 per year. I'll let the 2 of you decide whether it is appropriate here. My blurb for introducing Atsme might be more controversial, I'll let the two of you decide on whether a rewrite is needed after I write it. Smallbones( smalltalk) 15:48, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
@ Bri: See The Perfect Storm (film). Not so much an idiom as a cliche. Smallbones( smalltalk) 17:57, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
Interesting how they lay out their program at fr:Discussion_utilisateur:Troover. Almost like it's a public good. They say that they are helping
(machine translation, my French is next to nonexistent but even I understand Contributions rémunérées non-déclarées). ☆ Bri ( talk) 20:10, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
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James M. Baxter, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from
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independent sources. (
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verifiability is of
central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to
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I think I got the wrong person, sorry.
A while ago someone put a message on my talk page soliciting people to create articles on NRHP places. Do you know who that was?
Jim Evans (
talk) 19:14, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
Hey Smallbones. In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, things related to Black Lives Matter and coverage of black people, especially on Wikipedia, have gotten a lot of attention. This is well encapsulated by that Slate article. Bad faith AfD nominations, contentious deletion discussions with meatpuppeting and canvassing, and accusations of racism have created some kerfuffles at ANI and come up in Village Pump discussions about raising the bar for AfD participation. I think now would be a good time to write an opinion on how editors can counter systemic bias and how they cannot. - Indy beetle ( talk) 12:49, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Smallbones,
Translation completed, feel free to check the English language.
Coming back to you first message on frWiki:
Best regards, JohnNewton8 ( talk) 09:32, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for having corrected the meaning of "pastiche". This dictionary, edited by
CNRS, is widely seen as reliable* (including by people who work daily on words' meaning, like translators):
https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/pastiche. You'll see allusions to imitation, imiter (imitate) and parody. Basically, a pastiche is a game of imitation. Hoaxes don't always contain the funny, parodic angle.
(*) Unfortunately, the dictionary is based on the French spoken in France, so Québécois people for instance will not find all variants. Regards, - -
Bédévore
[knock knock] 11:48, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
There was a recently closed ANI thread involving a specific editor who has raised (credibly IMO) concerns of systemic racism around his topics of interest. They received an editing restriction. There's an active thread on Jimmy Wales' talkpage and VPP. Saw an Arb comment somewhat acidly on the editor's personal talkpage too.
If nothing else I think there's a viable discussion here about the value of creating stubs, and the creeping bar-raising that may have been happening to discourage that practice.
Should I go ahead with this in the context of The Signpost? -- Bri.public ( talk) 21:14, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
Was this intentional? ☆ Bri ( talk) 01:36, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
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all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.
Thought you might enjoy /be intrigued by this: [6]. - Indy beetle ( talk) 02:03, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
FYI [7] I think it should be up to the author whether to change this – i.e., you ☆ Bri ( talk) 19:42, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
FYI [8]. I hadn't seen this announced anywhere and found it incidentally when trying to find a policy statement on something else WMF related. They were previously site banned [9] following an Arbcom decision to overturn an indef checkuser block ... complicated stuff, I know. Not sure if this is worthy of The Signpost or just a sad footnote. - Bri.public ( talk) 17:12, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
I recently had to read and swallow: "Caution: Replication lag is high, changes newer than 3 days may not be shown. " Would you please make it a topic in the next Signpost that the Wp or shouldn't we say Wikimedia (paid) tech section seems to have lost control about replication lag now for DAYS! Former replication lags AFAIK never exceeded hours. And I (and all of us) not even have trustable information about WHY. Do we need to have community analysts of our own, does possibly WMF people paper over the cracks? Well, I really don't know. -- Just N. ( talk) 21:20, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello,
According to WP: PAID, "A paid contribution is one that involves contributing to Wikipedia in exchange for money or other inducements. It includes adding or removing content from any page, including articles and talk pages." I gave Robinhood advice and recommendations, including telling them they had to disclose a conflict of interest and submit their proposed changes through the Talk page. I also asked them to disclose that I had advised them, which they did: "I have a WP: COI as an employee of Robinhood. As instructed by the Contact Us page's [1] instructions for article subjects to contact Wikipedia to make requests regarding articles that are "incomplete, inaccurate, or biased," I would like to request that an independent editor review the following proposed edits. User:BC1278 helped me prepare this request, as a paid consultant."
I actually prepared a draft for Robinhood on a Wikipedia sandbox so they could see what some edits would look like if implemented by an independent editor User talk:BC1278/sandbox/Robinhood, and I prepared a sandbox Talk page for the draft so they could see my recommendations and my recommended format for making a Request Edit with disclosure language. User talk:BC1278/sandbox/Robinhood The first sentence of that Talk entry is: "I have a WP: COI as a paid consultant to Robinhood." This is my COI disclosure. However, the person at the company I was working with decided they wished to submit different language than my recommendations. Because of this, I advised the editor to submit the Request Edits with their own account -- User:Dpm715. I only use my account to submit my own recommendations, not requests that differ from my suggestions. That said, on my sandbox, I gave Dpm715 language to disclose I had been involved, since some of my recommendations were used: "User: BC1278 helped me prepare this request, as a paid consultant." Here is the edit [10] where I suggested the additional disclosure language about me, which had not been in any previous version, when I still thought I would be submitting my own recommendations.
It is important to reiterate that the editor who made the actual live Request Edit made the final decision as to what to submit, including the language, the citations, etc. Their version is different than my sandbox recommendations in several ways. Thus, the Request Edit on the Talk page of the live article is their own contribution, not mine, nor was it submitted on "my behalf." My own Wikipedia contribution was the sandbox, which has a COI disclosure from me. If I had submitted my version on Talk for the actual article, I would have made a disclosure there as well.
Smallbones, I presume you intend to disclose that you have been not only writing about me in Signpost, but following me to articles to challenge my editing proposals directly? And, in fact, to make ad hominem attacks about the clients I work with? "The article itself is horrible - you should be ashamed of having your name associated with it." [11] Don't you think this conflicts you from also writing about me on Signpost? Your predecessor felt exactly this way, even though we had only minor interactions on Wikipedia. That's why he asked you to interview me originally. You've really crossed a line when it comes to any semblance of unbiased reporting -- not just for following me from article to article but for attacking me personally. Shouldn't you be turning over any story involving me to another writer for Signpost now that you're also involved in Wikipedia Talk page discussions involving me? To not separate out Signpost from personal editing (especially where you have expressed personal animus toward me) seems to me (and apparently your predecessor) an abuse of power. BC1278 ( talk) 17:10, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Ed, Seriously, you shouldn't put emails other people sent you on Wikipedia without their permission - it's a copyright violation. Also, I never would have guessed that anybody thought that @ Barkeep49: was my predecessor. As I remember this it was at the time that Ashley Feinberg wrote that article about you on Huff Post, saying how much damage you do around here. I was pretty kind to you IIRC, saying in the Signpost that she hadn't actually accused you of breaking any rules, except perhaps WP:PAYTALK. So if this was the time that Barkeep49 asked to interview you (or did he ask for me to interview you?) I was giving you a big break. Of course I would have asked him about his previous contacts with you. I don't think that I'd ever run into either of you before. But that doesn't mean that I would have disqualified him for having a few contacts with you. Nobody in journalism would do that. Now when Ronan Farrow wrote more about your paid editing around here, that means a lot. Not many people get to have their work reamed out by both Feinberg and Farrow! So please don't tell me how to run The Signpost. Nobody in their right minds would accept your opinion on how to write a story about paid editing over mine.
Barkeep49, do you want me to remove your email from this page. Smallbones( smalltalk) 21:28, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Smallbones, as you also know, Feinberg's accusations were discredited and disavowed after weeks of investigation and discussion on ANI. A consensus of the discussion from an uninvolved admin was that Feinberg had no idea what she was talking about and that I had done nothing wrong. Some admins said not only did Feinberg distort and dissemble, but thst I improved Wikipedia. Another admin urged me to try to get the WMF to take action against HuffPo. A WIRED columnist looking at the situation said I clearly improved Wikipedia with the rigor of my research and writing -- and it was unfair chiefly because average people couldn't afford to hire professionals like me. Farrow repeated some of the HuffPo allegations without even calling me and apparently, without knowledge of the outcome of the ANI investigation. His PR person's primary defense was that he sourced it to the HuffPo. Feinberg is a horrible reporter who came out of Gawker, a trashy tabloid. She is being sued for libel for each of the last two articles she wrote for HuffPo (including by me) before HuffPo parted company with her. Your continuing to bring up these false allegations in an attempt to injur my reputation actually helps prove damages in my libel case, even though I'd rather you stop. BC1278 ( talk) 18:22, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
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When The Signpost issue 7 article "COI and paid editing" was published, the first para said "the website was removed" apparently referring to right-angles.global. That website is still up. I think you meant to say that a photo was removed from the website? ☆ Bri ( talk) 19:13, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
So I'm ckind of confused about contributing can anyone just start a new Signpost page or do I go to the submissions desk. If I wasn't supposed to create this on my own, I would like to express my apoligies (in advance) for the confusion and would like to ask you to delete this "next issue" essay. P,TO 19104 ( talk) ( contribs) 14:30, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
If someone is going to write something this 2014 thing from Slate [13] could fit in somehow. Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 14:43, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
And it's global. Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 15:51, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
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shoulduse the articles for creation process.
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I came across this edit after seeing a conversation on Deepfriedokra's talk page. Given that in the past you've discussed the Signpost's journalism aspirations, I suggest you might reconsider initiating a discussion on behalf of the Signpost and at the same time suggesting a course of action to the editor. In addition to introducing yourself into the story, the editor can perceive an implication regarding the type of coverage they may receive from the Signpost, based on the editor's subsequent deeds. I understand your desire to provide experienced counsel. In my view, though, this role ought to be kept separate from that of reporter. I appreciate, of course, that it's up to your discretion to determine how to manage these situations. isaacl ( talk) 19:37, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello there. I see there are some vacancies for the editorial board of the Signpost. I would like to apply for the Editors position. I am clean and organized, and well versed in the news and media. When accomplishing my everyday tasks, I listen to a variety of objective news sources, so I am completely up-to-date on the news. This means that I can reject articles with ease if I know that they are complete nonsense.
I am good at motivating people to write, so as long as I have some guidance on who would be good candidates to solicit for writing portions of the Signpost, I can filter that list and give you only the very best.
Finally, I understand one of my roles as an Editor is to remind writers to finish their work. I get completely anal when it comes to finishing things, so I will pester people to no end until they get their work DONE. It's just who I am.
I understand that you are the Editor in chief of the Signpost, so I have decided you are the best person to go to for my request/application. I look forward to hearing your response, and if there is anything I must accomplish (such as getting to know the other editors, writers, how the Signpost positions work etc.) I will be more than happy to do it. Cheers.
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Tarivona Asher Mutsengi (1983-2009), McLeans. The obit is 11 years old but is User:Africa_Festival according to this. -- Green C 13:25, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
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Sorry for the very late question; I understand it can't be addressed before publication. It's a bit odd to have to speculate on what Wikipedia administrators thought; did they not respond to inquiries? isaacl ( talk) 21:02, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
OK, the last comment I have is editorial, and so again I'm sorry for not reading the report earlier and commenting then. The Canadian prime minister doesn't really have much to do with the story, so personally I think mentioning him again in the last section and saying there are no known links to the firm in question is a bit uncalled for. There isn't much reason to believe that people vet the advertising firms used by the people they interact with, so it's not exactly news that there is no known link. I know publication is nigh, and so I understand if you want to leave your concluding section as-is. isaacl ( talk) 21:33, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
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1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.
Wikipedia_talk:In_the_news#Closing/re-opening noms might be worth an op-ed. [W]e should retire ITN as a section of the Main Page altogether, except possibly for the RD portion. We basically are saying to our readers that we know way way way better what's good for them and what's really important. That 8 editors who cast the 'oppose' votes in that discussion count more than all the news coverage in the world and the fact that tomorrow we'll probably discover that the
DT Wikipedia article had been viewed by over 500K readers today (or at least I wouldn't be surprised if it were a number in that range). Those readers, they don't know anything about our ITN and ITNR rules, no do they care. But they most definitely know when a story is 'in the news'.
seems on-point to me (I've had problems with ITN for a long time now, I could show you my unsuccessful bid for what seemed an obvious item to me). Another comment: The thread was closed too quickly, in less than 1.5 hours, of course while the U.S. editors were asleep. Perhaps a revenge for the RBG story being posted so fast.
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Brief timeline above for Smallbones and/or watchers. - Bri.public ( talk) 18:00, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
The discussion continues. It looks like it has turned into a vote on a proposal but incompletely defined and without any notifications AFAIK. They are also mixing the merits of the specific story with the discussion of the proposal to re-open discussion. What a mess. - Bri.public ( talk) 20:00, 5 October 2020 (UTC)