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Is there any method for formally making a complaint or a report about an unhelpful or unwarranted RfC discussion? I was opposed to the RfC discussion (at Talk:Donetsk People's Republic) for a number of reasons, including (1) its non-urgency, (2) its poorly arranged options and layout, and (3) the disruptive behaviour of the person who originally made the RfC, as well as that of one of the other commenters. The problem with the RfC is that the two users were trying to present it as the be all and end all, i.e. "we get our way if the vote goes in our favour!". But given that the vote was, for lack of a better term, rigged, and given that there was no real consensus even despite one option being slightly ahead, I was opposed to the interpretation that it should be the be all and end all. Jargo Nautilus ( talk) 00:42, 17 September 2022 (UTC)s.
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Jimbo is sufficiently active that he would be retaining administrator, with 153 edits in the past year. Snowmanonahoe ( talk) 19:53, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
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Hey! I noticed that you deleted Draft:Prap Young as a copyvio. Was there some other source besides Fandom that it's copying from? Because the Fandom Wiki it was copying from is licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 which is compatible with Wikipedia. ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 20:27, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
I've made an amendment request to my topic band. Hoping 'at least' for a clarification, there. GoodDay ( talk) 21:13, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
I've made an amendment reqeust to my topic ban. GoodDay ( talk) 23:26, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
I am baffled that you reverted my edit and claimed that I deleted sources that claimed Smollett is Jewish. There were no sources claiming that on the page to begin with. There was a citation that Smollett's father was Jewish but not one for Jussie. I am guessing you know very little about Judaism but as per the accepted definition you are either born to a Jewish mother or you have a valid conversion. That is not my personal opinion. That's the definition Wikipedia follows. If your father was Jewish you are of Jewish ancestry but not Jewish. I am Jewish by the way. Read this: "Orthodox Judaism and Conservative Judaism follow Jewish law (Halakha), deeming people to be Jewish if their mothers are Jewish or if they underwent a halakhic conversion" ( Sellpink ( talk) 20:53, 18 March 2023 (UTC))
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Hello, I'm correcting a tracked syntax error on Wikipedia called the Tidy Font bug, and one of your protected pages has two of these. Would you be willing to make the following change to User:Dennis Brown/RfA/Basalisk?
At the very bottom of the page, would you change
[[User:Anthony Bradbury|<span style="color:Red;">'''Anthony Bradbury'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Anthony.bradbury|<span style="color:Black">"talk"</span>]]</sup>
to
[[User:Anthony Bradbury|<b style="color: Red">Anthony Bradbury</b>]]<sup>[[User talk:Anthony.bradbury|<span style="color: Black">"talk"</span>]]</sup>
When links are written in the <font>[[link]]</font> format with the color specified outside of the link, browsers don't agree on how to display the colors. Some browsers display it with the specified colors, and others default back to the standard link blue. If you are willing to adjust this, it would be much appreciated.
Thank you, Zinnober9 ( talk) 04:38, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
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hello ccan you help me create an articlee please 876gads ( talk) 00:19, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I and others have proposed additional options at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#RfC_on_a_procedural_community_desysop. You may wish to review your position in that RfC. TonyBallioni ( talk) 02:32, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
I made a quick formatting fix at an old RFB page then pinged you just in case. Only to later be told it was probably a Special:LintErrors/missing-end-tag or similar and already being handled by one of them Lint error bots. Anyway, dont mind me/sorry for the ping.
Also now that I've pinged you twice anyway... Hello o/ I've not interacted directly with you since returning, but I do remember you fondly, probably interacting over common WER things? (I used to be much more around 8+ years back(
Holla / how has it been? Soni ( talk) 16:41, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, sorry to bother you again - you've recently given me some advice about my quarrels with User:My very best wishes. I'm contacting you again for the following reason. In August I filed an RM at Talk:Russian separatist forces in Donbas, which has been recently closed with "no consensus" by a non-involved editor. It was a tough call and a long discussion, with many editors (I think 14 out of 21) !voting in support of the RM and 7 opposing it. I'm not fully convinced about the lack of consensus, and I've started a conversation with the closer. They've been kind and ready to explain and give advice, but I feel that that conversation is not going anywhere and I'm wondering whether asking for a review of the closure would be appropriate here. Note that I've never opened an RM before and I've participated in very few ones, so I lack experience and might well be completely wrong about what a consensus is within the frame of an RM. However.... I think there's a consensus to move, and if there's not, I think the discussion is not over yet and should be re-opened. I'd appreciate if you could have a look at this and give me some advice as to how to proceed, or not to proceed, on the matter. The relevant discussions are the following ones:
I know it's lots of stuff! Please if you don't have time or interest, don't worry and just tell me - I won't be upset. Gitz ( talk) ( contribs) 13:33, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
half dozen links to top shelf sourcesyou mentioned:
Hi Dennis
I hope you're well.
I've noticed three new accounts making edits and undiscussed page moves on similar Indian transport articles to the last two:
Obviously the first has the same sort of username as before. Not so sure about the second and third, but they're both newish accounts editing and moving in this area, and also warned by Liz for making excessive page moves. Plus they are probably socks of each other anyway... Cheers — Amakuru ( talk) 16:15, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
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Hi Dennis,
I noticed this online link
[2]. This might result in more disruption in the cesspool known as
WP:AA2 and
WP:KURDS.
Google translate: ""The first spark was ignited in order to correct and organize the unfounded claims we have seen on Wikipedia recently. r/turkviki was established. Let's get organized from there."
Another link:
[3]
Google translate:
[4] "Friends, this subreddit was founded on the termination of unfounded claims made on Wikipedia. Our aim is to put an end to the unfounded allegations made on Wikipedia, the propaganda activities targeting our country and nation, to express the truth and correct the mistakes."
Google translate of one of the comments:
[5] "we need a larger audience, salaried employees of wikipedia, and I don't know how effective we can be against the current Turkish hatred"
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Hey Dennis Brown,
In your understanding, is the policy interpretation presented here on voting in an AfD when under an IBAN still in force?
Best regards,
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He was the uncle of Mark "Chopper" Read, which is referenced, (i don't add false information) if you don't believe me, maybe Google it, before calling someone a vandal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.106.15.135 ( talk) 19:47, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
User Earl Andrew has proven to have a conflict of interest in the article Ike Awgu, even lying about attending the same college. It should be re-nominated for deletion. It obviously does not meet notability inclusion criteria for Wikipedia. I am confident ANY neutral, non-involved party can see this. 50.237.197.242 ( talk) 20:13, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello Dennis, it's been a while. Just wanted you to know, in the coming days (likely mid-Jan 2023), I'll be requesting my t-ban from gender identity pages, be ended. To clarify, is WP:ARCA the correct place, to seek that result? GoodDay ( talk) 16:27, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
Letting you know. I'm appealing at AE. -- GoodDay ( talk) 21:49, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
Do I have the option of withdrawing my appeal? GoodDay ( talk) 04:19, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
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Hi DB. Back in August you blocked 98.231.157.169 for a month due to disruptive editing at Talk:Armenian genocide ( here's the section with your block message). They've since been editing as 68.83.217.103 and 37.252.90.66, still manually signing their posts with "Davidian".
They made a new suggestion in January, but they bundled with it some bad-faith assumptions and dredging up of past issues. I posted at their talk page to ask them to decouple their suggestion from the conduct accusations, which they did. After a period of inactivity, they responded today in that same talk page section to add misconduct accusations against Buidhe and myself. It includes a misquote attributed to me, saying that I'd accused them of "bad faith and obscenity", when I'd said "bad-faith assumptions and incivility".
I understand it you'd prefer that I take this to AE, and I'd drop it altogether if you think that's best. I've spent a non-trivial amount of time trying to reason with them, and I'm tired. I could definitely go into "just ignore their posts" mode, which appears to be the approach taken by most of the talk page watchers. Firefangledfeathers ( talk / contribs) 20:23, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
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Hello Dennis Brown. In the coming weeks, I'll be seeking a full appeal of my t-ban. In the meantime, is it alright for me to have that appeal placed in my sandbox, so that I can make adjustments to it, before presenting it to WP:AE? GoodDay ( talk) 18:39, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
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Hello Dennis. I put in an appeal, concerning my t-ban. GoodDay ( talk) 16:04, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
The arbitration case Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/AlisonW has been closed, and the final decision is viewable at the case page. The following remedy has been enacted:
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You voted that the Vassal Benford website had copyright infringement within his bio, which resulted in the wiki page being removed, but i want to request that you un-deleted this page.
You can search the name throughout wikipedia and see that he is tagged to many different songs and projects, and its imparitive that we have the page relisted as our social impact and profile is being greatly effected by this action.
Please let me know what we need to do to clear this up as we have not posted anything on our website that was not directly related or created by Vassal himself.
We would like to disuss this action and you may reach out to our lawyer Ronald Lebow if needed on any issues or concerns that need addressed.
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Hi Dennis.
I just stopped by to note a couple of things.
So, recently a certain website not worth linking to was mentioned on some talk page. I don't think I've looked at that site in years - probably was related to some arb case or something.
So I read through the (long) thread and once done, on a whim I searched for my username on the site. Not much, though there was one thread that made me smile and laugh. In the thread (which was about some proposal I opposed at some point in the past), you made a couple comments.
So, first, I wanted to let you know: Due to our past interactions you have gained my respect. We haven't always agreed on things, quite the reverse sometimes, but your comments and some discussions we've had, and also that you "walk the walk" of your words (which says more about someone than what they merely say). I also respect how you are willing to work with Wikipedia newbies - at the "teahouse" or where ever.
Anyway, so, because of past discussions, this page is on my watchlist (along with many others), and so when I saw someone give you kudos that were well-deserved, I thought I'd comment. I'm sorry if my appearance confused you.
Besides that, I laughed at being called "excitable" : )
I guess when I see something worth participating in, I join in. But, over the last several years, I've generally avoided adding the ubiquitous "me too". So I guess when I do decide to join in, perhaps I look excitable : )
And finally, yes, I do things "manually". My few forays into trying out automated tools just hasn't gone very far (check out the contributions of User:jc377 - which was created to try out AWB), either due to it seeming more effort than just doing it myself, or because the automation doesn't do what I need it to do. My most recent look was at category tools like hotcat. Nice-ish, I guess, but I turned it back off.
C'est la vie. Maybe one of these days I'll go look into awb again. I don't know if I even recall that account's password lol
Anyway, sorry for the length, but just wanted to let you know that you are respected at least by one Wikipedian (not that that matters much, I suppose), and that you gave me a smile today.
I hope your day is going awesomely : ) - jc37 21:30, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, Dennis. I hope that you're well. I saw
your response at RfPP ("it was a series of BLP violations that were serious enough that they required hiding the history, so in my judgement, that was the appropriate level of protection to guarantee the various IPS would not come back in a couple of days"
) to
Mdaniels5757 regarding
your year-long extended-confirmed protection of
Lara Trump. I think this confusion was understandable, as your log summary refers to "(auto)confirmed accounts"
(probably a pre-loaded summary from Twinkle?).
As someone who is familiar with CalebHughes, I think that extended-confirmed is not necessary at all because a) Caleb does not bother with getting accounts to autoconfirmed to do BLP violations and b) use of extended-confirmed should not be based on whether the information was deletable. It should be used when there is actually disruption from autoconfirmed accounts, and this did not occur. I'm therefore requesting that you reduce it to semi-protection, please. Thank you, Sdrqaz ( talk) 03:07, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
Good afternoon, just noticed that you have reverted the membership numbers numerous times. While what you are saying about the citation not being a secondary source, it would probably be far easier to update it with the sources that you are claiming notes membership as 5,000
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).
Greetings, can you please advice regarding Mhorg ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) edits. The editor adds [6] [7] misleading info into articles (discussed here Talk:Russian invasion of Ukraine#500,000 Ukrainian military killed or seriously wounded ) and reinstates it after it was removed [8] . The editor is busy with some reverts at other articles - Ivan Katchanovski and 2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage - which I haven't investigated and have no info if reverts are right or wrong. The editor prefers a journalist article instead of an academic researcher as an RS Talk:Azov Brigade/Archive 11#c-Mhorg-20230614141100-Manyareasexpert-20230614120900 (It seems that what Golikin claims is verifiable, while what Shekhovtsov says is just his opinion). Thank you for your advice. ManyAreasExpert ( talk) 19:15, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
Dennis,
I'm looking at the version of Paul Laviolette at the time that it was speedied, and also the versions at Paul LaViolette at the time they were nominated for deletion ( 2nd nomination, 3rd nomination) and actually deleted ( 2nd nomination, 3rd nomination).
I don't think that this was a valid WP:G4, as there were substantial differences between the versions that were deleted at AfD and the version that was speedied. I genuinely think this was re-created de novo, 14ish years after the article was most recently taken to AfD. And some of the sources in the speedied article (e.g. the paper " Scientific Misconduct: Three Forms that Directly Harm Others as the Modus Operandi of Mill’s Tyranny of the Prevailing Opinion") were published after the most recent deletion discussion.
There are some copyproblems with the article content (copy-pasting from the aforementioned paper, for example), but I don't think they rise to a WP:G12 level, either. There are also some problems with a good bit of uncited material. But I don't think this warrants a speedy inasmuch as it warrants draftification and removal of the copyproblem. Through that lens, are you willing to restore the article to draftspace, sans the "censorship" section? — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 05:14, 1 February 2024 (UTC)