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Edit-wars on Arbitration report related Signpost pages

It appears Ohconfucius is continuing to play up with his battling and edit-warring on Signpost pages ([1] [2] [3] [4]). As it were, Tony1 seems to suggest that the "first author spot" is reserved for whoever creates the report first. Even if that is the case (which it hasn't been since I began writing the report earlier last year), it would not justify this in the newssroom; it shows he is using Signpost as a battleground and your lack of intervention is concerning. You promised that you'd have a talk with him and that would be the end of it; evidently, there is no end to this issue, and he has also resorted to grossly uncivil commentary both in edits and edit summaries ([5] [6]) that shows that he is unlikely to collaborate. He is not heeding the warnings he has been given so it seems there is little choice but to escalate this through the normal route. I'd still prefer to see what you will do to resolve this issue so I'm giving this note to you now. Ncmvocalist (talk) 11:38, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

See also what I said here. Ncmvocalist (talk) 11:49, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

• This is more of an editorial and personality issue than anything else – note that I haven't been reverting any of the changes he made to my draft report. I feel it hasn't been the same since I accused NMV for writing like a tabloid journalist, and he's been behaving rather possessively about Arb Report. I suggest that you ask us both to withdraw from editing Arb Report. It wouldn't matter to me if someone else wrote it, so long as his replacement doesn't continually indulge in his NPOV antics. --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 14:10, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
• The fact that he chose to revert that and nothing else clarifies exactly what I am saying; I'll be waiting for the day when he has stopped serving his own perceived (and actual) agenda, mainly concerning a grudge which he has against me. That may be the first helpful step he takes. What he has been doing is incompatible with The Signpost and the functioning of the wider wiki, and it doesn't matter how many ways I try to convey it to him; he still pushes ahead with it to a maximum, and you've experienced it first hand on more than one occasion. I suspect once he lets it go, he might actually pay attention to what is being said and thereby, bear it in mind so that he can improve the quality of his writings for the report; when that happens, I'd need not put so much (if any) time into this report. I'll keep waiting then. Ncmvocalist (talk) 14:56, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

You'll understand that my spontaneous reaction to edit-warring over the order of user names in the byline and in the Newsroom contributors list for this section was not too different from that of Slakr [7][8] (although I can't endorse his suggestion because I prefer to keep the Signpost out of WP:LAME while still having a proper byline).

At the moment, there is a whole lot of other work to do on tomorrow's Signpost issue which is more important than sorting out this conflict, but I will look at the byline at publication time.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 18:26, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

• Ohconfucius is repeatedly and disruptively edit-warring on the arbitration pages without any discussion or sign of collaboration - and it's happening after publication this week. I don't know if it's sheer incompetence or a sign that he is determined to cause as much disruption as possible. It is prejudicial to dispute resolution to name (never mind adding a misleading number of) the parties in the absence of complete evidence being presented (and the case being closed). Also, unlike what he has asserted, it does not in fact show the scope of a case; the evidence is what determines that. Finally, the fact that he keeps adding and reinstating inaccurate assertions and omissions in the report (as a matter of regularity) is what is concerning - more than 10 statements were made prior to the case being accepted. The fact that his initial edits came at such a late point suggests his intentions are not as noble as you may like to believe. Ncmvocalist (talk) 12:04, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
  • I note that Tony1 is tag-teaming. Could you please tell the two to avoid making a spectacle? Ncmvocalist (talk) 16:00, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

There is nothing wrong with minor improvements in wording to make it clearer and easier for our readers. Other editors come in and fix glitches at our other pages after publication, and their edits are almost always an improvement. It is a wiki, after all. The problem arises when you exert ownership by reverting these improvements—and after publication, too. Could you clearly set out why you believe the more recent edits are not improvements before reverting, please? This should not even register on the radar, but is being driven into a big drama. Why? Tony (talk) 01:51, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Yes, let's examine that point shall we? When other editors add slight improvements, there isn't an issue, but it's remarkably interesting that where you and Ohconfucius begin tagteaming on this report, be it in the past or this week, you manage to do the exact opposite of an improvement - you turn the entire report (and also each of the cases involved) into a separate spectacle. Evidently, if you read what I said just above, you would note exactly what the problem is with your perceived "improvements" as you charitably characterise them. I think it shows it has nothing to do with ownership; it has everything to do with your apparent inability to accept that you might not have enough of a clue of how this report interacts with dispute resolution or the rest of Wikipedia. This isn't uncommon as far as you are both concerned, given a combination of last year's (and now this year's growing number of) spectacles. And now Ohconfucius is starting to turn another lame edit war with disclaimers - there is a thing called common sense. The fact that no other report is finding a need to add a disclaimer (despite the same effectively applying to all of them), and the fact that despite this, Ohconfucius suddenly feels a great principle is being sacrified by the arb report not explicitly adding this disclaimer, is yet another part of the damaging mentality that the both of you have been bringing to this part of The Signpost. Ncmvocalist (talk) 07:45, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

• It's now patently obvious that Vocalist doesn't 'get' that there's more than one way to skin a cat, and that 'his' isn't the "orthodox correct way"™ and mine not the 'wrong way'. OTOH, 'crap writing' is quite a bit less subjective, and there's no monopoly on that, either. --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 10:12, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

• • Look who's pointing the finger again! I'll admit to 'incompetence' if he'll simply admit to being a dick and a lousy copywriter. I believe that trouts all around for yet another lame edit war are in order. --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 01:56, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Stop it, please, both of you. This is no time to call each other names; it is precisely the time we should all try to give others some leeway. The Signpost needs its journalists to collaborate, to work together productively. Now, Vocalist, I want to point to your achievements in writing the Arbitration report, and to say that your work is appreciated. However, I believe Ohconfucius (and I, if needed) have something to offer as well, and that there is scope for design tweaks in the report. I like the note at the bottom because it means there is no need to clutter the body of the text with time-anchored phrases.

The great potential of the Arb report is to render in simple, crisp language and form what are extraordinarily (and IMO often unnecessarily) complex proceedings. It's not always going to be an easy or quick job, and we all know ArbCom specialises in acres of bloated text and has never been good at deadlines and evidentiary limits. We owe it to the community to "translate", as it were, into plain language, skilfully summarised, a record of AC proceedings. Why not embrace the idea of a co-author? I would be pleased if other editors volunteered to help with F and A—it's a mammoth job to do weekly.

Could we come to an amicable arrangement so that the AR can be tended to happily by more than one editor? Can we explore the notion of being nice to each other? It should be the norm, IMO. Tony (talk) 12:37, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Very good remarks about the general value of collaboration, Tony, but your words might carry a bit more weight if you hadn't taken part in the conflict yourself (on the same side as in several previous conflicts between these two writers about this section). And insinuating that your opponent wants to "to damage the text" is not so far from calling each other names either; perhaps it's a good moment to re-read WP:AGF. Still, I endorse most of what you said in the above comment.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 00:32, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

I'm sorry about not having replied earlier about this matter. But I've been a bit busy in recent days, and after noting the above comments, on Thursday I tried for about 10 minutes to understand which of these changes were either important enough to change the article after the Signpost's publication date, or wrong enough for me to step in. For both criteria, I failed to identify any within this time span. This might be because of my ignorance, or because the comments here and on the story's talk page did not explain the issues clearly enough, or because the changes were made for other reasons.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 00:32, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

• Whilst it is true that none of the changes could be regarded as 'critical', the 'other reasons' were simply that I had issues (as to the style and some content) following NMV's radical copyedit of my version of the report (overnight, for me). I also though it would be advisable to remove the risible reference to November 2010 as "last year". --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 06:54, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-01-17/Arbitration_report. HaeB, I've asked for your input. Tony (talk) 02:12, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

OK, this looks like a more relevant question - I'll have a look at it, thanks. Regards, HaeB (talk) 00:32, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

• I have no wish to go around in circles about this, but I regarded your own stance during that argument as highly unsatisfactory and partisan; it is not helped by adding to it here in a high-handed manner. At least the argument has made us think about the need to be sensitive to exposing the names of editors in headlines and in text that go out to thousands of pages, where variations in the amount of newsworthy content can make a significant difference to the effect. Tony (talk) 09:59, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
  • Your comment indicates a sufficient lack of clue regarding what a "partisan" position is, or indeed, what unsatisfactory conduct you've repeatedly engaged in with Ohconfucius when it comes to this matter. Names of editors being added in headlines is something that is actively avoided for the very reason that we need to be sensitive, but it is unavoidable for some of their names to be mentioned in the text. I note that a couple of the arbitrators who had boldly commented there have not revealed the things that they (and/or certain colleagues of theirs) have said off-wiki in regards to this report, despite the fact it would give everyone more perspective regarding what this really is about. Ncmvocalist (talk) 03:07, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
    • I don't understand your references to arbitrators and off-wiki, and I don't see how it could be relevant. The personal accusations such as "what unsatisfactory conduct you've repeatedly engaged in" are a pity:\. I don't recall having made accusations of you since my call for collaboration, cooperation, and good-will among Signpost journalists. I wonder whether you might be prepared to take a positive attitude. I support your contributions to the Arb Report, and as I've implied, reacting to Ohconfucius's efforts by reverting and name-placing are unnecessary. Nor is running to mommy on this page; I'd like to think we are mature enough to collaborate on equal terms on each other's talk pages, in the newsroom, or on the talk page of the report (to be removed before publication in that case). Your views on the structure and angle of the page are due some respect, but taking an attitude of overt "ownership" isn't helpful. We all need to show mature respect for each other. I look forward to positive interactions with you. Tony (talk) 06:37, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
      • If there has truly been any "unsatisfactory conduct", surely there is one name missing? That that name belongs is beyond doubt; whether that missing name belongs at the top or bottom of that list is, of course, a matter of opinion. --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 07:01, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
        • I think the history that you two have of tagteaming and edit-warring on this part of The Signpost, let alone other areas of Wikipedia, demonstrates anything but ownership Tony, and until that stops, there is no choice but to alert HaeB of these issues each time these arise - which is funnily enough, like I said above, happening each week where you two are concerned. The competence issue also continues to raise its head. I'd again suggest HaeB start taking more drastic measures before this continues to spiral out of control. Ncmvocalist (talk) 09:04, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
          • The "tag teaming" miraculously stops when you get your way. That tells me plenty... --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 10:01, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
            • What tells me plenty is your comment - which demonstrates a lack of insight about what is actually "my way". Ncmvocalist (talk) 10:09, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
              • Yeah, maybe. I was in the middle of refactoring my comment when you replied. I had meant to say "...when the text gets close to your preferred version/style". --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 10:14, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
                • No amount of refactoring is helping disguise the reality about your editing of this report each week. Ncmvocalist (talk) 10:24, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
                  • I can just see you continue to beat me with WP:INSIGHT each week from now on, as if it were some huge stick. I can tell it's going to be tense here on in. Keep the attacks and insults coming... My weatherproof gear is ready at hand! ;-) --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 13:59, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
• This is like walking into someone's backyard, dropping one's pants, and having a dump. Why is this huge thread here? Tony (talk)

• Another week; same stuff. Ncmvocalist (talk) 17:20, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Arbitration report 7 February

I hope you weren't expecting a quiet week – I've just written a fair amount at Arb Report this week. So get ready for the same old, same old... –Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 16:08, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Signpost special

Do you think I could get some sort of special insert about what's going on at WT:RfA published in the next Signpost? I was thinking of something like this with a short introduction. Guoguo12--Talk--  13:11, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Guoguo12, I haven't been following that debate closely (in general my impression was that it is an important but slow-moving issue); you are probably in a better position to answer the question if there have been newsworthy developments recently: E.g. proposed changes with a real chance for consensus, new information (like those that WereSpielChequers' presented in the August story about Admin stats or the yearly stats used in your section in the 2010 review of RfA earlier this month) or at least new arguments? If there are such developments and one wants to summarize the discussion that is accompanying them, keep in mind that representing a debate by picking quotes is always a bit tricky - one needs to find the statements that are actually shaping the debate and its outcome, and be careful not to introduce bias ("the final say" might be misunderstood btw).

It's also possible to do an overview summarizing developments over a longer period of time, this could actually be fine without being lead by a particularly newsworthy element.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 04:17, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Yep, I think you're right. My quoting absolutely could be representing some people out of context, so I don't even know why I thought of publishing it in The Signpost, which I assume should (theoretically) be unbiased. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll see if I can conjure something else up, but I guess there really aren't any new developments, only reiterations of what has already been said. Note: Link to document has been reset. Guoguo12--Talk--  15:40, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

A number of us just had a paper published in JMIR

You are able to read it here [9]. Wondering if this is worthy of sign post? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:34, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

It was already noted ;)

I was going to mention it for this week's "In the news", which is going to be published very soon (before midnight UTC), so I won't have time to write more than a brief note about it - but if you could contribute more background information, for example on the writing process (did you draft it on a wiki?), you would be welcome. Regards, HaeB (talk) 19:56, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Signpost delivery on another wiki

Thank you for quick reply :]. I just added my account to this list.

Thank you for help. PMG (talk) 15:18, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for maintaining 2010 and 2011 archives

First, a thank-you for maintaining these.

Second, are you still maintaining Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2011? I don't see anything since early January.

Third, is this a task that a bot could do? davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 18:05, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Dawidwr, anyone can maintain these (and several people did for the 2010 archive). For the last months of 2010, I had implemented a system which includes past issues automatically once the publication date has passed [10], because manual (or bot) updates are quite a nuisance. I was going to do the same in a more elegant form, using a template, for the 2011 page, but haven't gotten around to do so - thanks for reminding me, and I'll try to do that tomorrow once the current Signpost issue is published. Regards, HaeB (talk) 18:13, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Really fine work

		The Signpost Barnstar
		I'm continually impressed by the quality and consistency of The Signpost under your editorship. This Signpost Barnstar is for excellent coverage of the gender gap mailing list this week, and for excellent and extensive work every week.--ragesoss (talk) 02:08, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I appreciate it a lot, very kind - especially considering our abject failure to summarize the media coverage of the gender topic in this week's ITN ;) Regards, HaeB (talk) 05:15, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

• Yes, it's very good. Just one thing: I don't understand this quoted material: "The share of ex-contributors within 10–17 years old female Wikipedians is 3.1% and exceeds thus by far the respective share of this group in the youngest male age cohort (2.2%)." Tony (talk) 04:02, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Indeed, one would have needed that the 10-17 cohort was the youngest one. I have reworded the sentence to make it clearer. Regards, HaeB (talk) 05:15, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

• I didn't mean to keep editing an article that had gone to press: I did not see you zero the newsroom page, and apologise. I will have myself put on the mailing list. --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 04:35, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Cf. my remarks on your talk page. Regards, HaeB (talk) 05:15, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

1. The text above I find undecipherable: it's a quote, so can't be changed. I think it should be paraphrased, but I can't understand it sufficiently to even paraphrase it. I don't see how you could have reworded it (as a direct quotation).
2. I reviewed the text in the Arb Rep about Ohconfucius and, indeed, Lightmouse, and found it to be neutral in a journalistic sense. I agree it should have been raised at the newsroom. Shouldn't this be mentioned at the top of the newsroom? Or somewhere else? Tony (talk) 05:33, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

1. My rewording edit mentioned above is here. Of course the reworded part is in square brackets, cf. WP:MOSQUOTE. The sentence basically means that in that age group, there are more girls than boys who have tried editing Wikipedia and then stopped, for whatever reason. Maybe it was also confusing that they use "Wikipedians" to denote all those that participated in the survey, I have tried to clarify that too.
2. I think that it should be pretty clear to any journalist that there are serious issues when writing about one's own motion to alleviate sanctions that the Arbcom had decided against oneself. (In any case such issues had already been discussed at length in November with Ohconfucius; but I assume you are talking about Signpost writers in general.) Raising it in the Newsroom was just an idea from the top of my head, the was letting somebody else cover it.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 06:15, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

WP:CONTRIB

"Following the success of their Imperial College Recruitment Drive, the Contribution Team will be hosting similar events at the Universities of Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds and Manchester between the 1st and 4th of March. For more information or to sign up as a volunteer or attendee, see the events page."

While WMUK and other chapters have made school and university visits before, this is, to my knowledge, the first week-long "tour" of flying visits. Ironholds (talk) 00:02, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Danese Cooper

I think your edit/comment there is misinformed. All of those folks serve on the same board at the Open Source Initiative. They're pretty closely connected and editing each others' articles in tandem. Simon Phipps has self identified himself as Open Source Guy and Webmink, Russ Nelson is self-evident and Danese Cooper is on the board. Please self revert. Toddst1 (talk) 16:04, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining your concerns more clearly - the only justification I could see for assuming a COI was your statement that these users were "prominent members of the Open Source community", a term that an overwhelming majority of readers would understand as referring to the Open source movement. You had not made clear that you were instead talking about a specific organization within that large movement.

I still question whether merely being on the same ten-member board creates a strong enough personal conflict of interest to justify singling out users like this. (Precisely how would, say, including positive information in the article about one board member increase the personal well-being of another one?) And you may also want to clarify which of their "significant contributions" are still present in the present version and cause the "big COI problem" that you stated, and which of their edits should be considered as tag-teaming.

I am also curious why you left out User:Danese.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 22:45, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

I hadn't found her. Thanks for pointing it out. Toddst1 (talk) 22:49, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

She doesn't appear to engaging in COI editing. Toddst1 (talk) 23:00, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

But didn't she add exactly the statement that you are now in conflict about with these other users?

While a third-party source would be preferable, I don't see a huge problem regarding WP:ABOUTSELF in citing her own blog posting.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 23:15, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Yale University Press

Hey HaeB, I left you a note on that talk page in regards to the tags you had applied to the article. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 15:57, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Really close to completion…

Hi HaeB,

sorry for bothering you over here. Isn't it about time to take care of that open issue? I got the impression that your backyard depraves in to an boxing ring. Maybe this isn't in our best interest. As a member of the ArbCom I know that decisions take time and I respect that. If you need more helping hands, don't hesitated to inform the community. Greetings, --bluNt. 15:50, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Hallo Blunt., du kannst davon ausgehen, dass ich Änderungen auf CUA und meiner Benutzerdiskussionsseite, bzw. allgemeiner meine Beobachtungsliste, auf de: durchaus zeitnah wahrnehme. I've spent further time on that issue but Hofstadter's law hit again. The "boxing ring" (I assume you are talking about the other request) is unfortunate indeed. Regards, HaeB (talk) 11:10, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Since, your colleague promised a "bomb" today… maybe that will help ;-) As you know, we – spoken as one of ArbCom – do have communication issues as well and we tried to solve them by communicating more with the community. I just wished you would do the same and with that I don't necessary mean earlier results. It will probably be useful if one of you makes a statement to pending case at least every week, or jsut moves part of the boxers to the backside of your backyard, so to speak. Best regards, bluNt. 21:33, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Possible new dispatch-babel people needed

Sitting in the FCDW backwaters is this fine little idea. The page is, of course, beyond outdated. The idea is to take a look at other wikipedias and see what their Featured Content processes and numbers are like. Would you like to take the lead with the German Wikipedia? I'm not even sure if I should make a page for it, yet. Looks to be a big collab. Need to scout out some interbabel people. Cheers, ResMar 15:09, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Yes, such an overview might be interesting if done right. However I'm afraid I won't have time to contribute myself in the foreseeable future - N&N and ITN are enough work at the moment. Regards, HaeB (talk) 16:49, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

I can probably handle the next N&N if you'd like. Can't make any commitments though, as I never know what school will throw at me. Glad you like the idea though. I'm still waiting for responses from the others (and Sandy is, in typically sandy fashion, ignoring me completely). ResMar 03:23, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Idea for Article

Hey HaeB! I have an idea in mind for the next Arbitration Report or as a separate article -- an analysis of the amount of requests for arbitrations the Committee has accepted over the past 18 months + a review of how long it has taken for cases from acceptance to final decision. Thoughts?

Best regards, Lord Roem (talk) 23:10, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Lord Roem, sounds like an interesting idea that might become a great story. Just go ahead and write ;) - perhaps in your user space; we can decide about the best format later, depending on length etc. (apart from the Arbcom Report section, past general coverage of ArbCom has also run as a separate section or as a full story in the "News and notes" section).

Regards, HaeB (talk) 16:42, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

I have made an excel spreadsheet with all the data - but here are graphs of key analyses: Lord Roem (talk) 05:41, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Month-by-month opened cases

Review of the Pending cases at the start of each month

Two-month interval review of case durations

Quite intriguing! Some more detail about the specification of the data (on the image description page) would be good, e.g. for File:Arbcomduration.png explain how "duration" is defined exactly, and is that the average of cases ending in each month or beginning in each month? And one might want to say what kind of fitting curve it is. But yes, they are of great value. Regards, HaeB (talk) 12:36, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

I have filled in more information for each graph, and I think it is more understandable now. :)

Would it be alright for me to start drafting an article in the red-linked "Special story 1"? Best regards, Lord Roem (talk) 17:59, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Also want to note I have started drafting an article, here. Lord Roem (talk) 18:01, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Haha - and I am almost done with it! I also contacted the Committee for a chance to respond, and NYB was nice enough to do so. Lord Roem (talk) 22:03, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Nice work! I think we can run it as a separate section now. For that, one needs to choose a section title (replacing "Special story" in the placeholder link), which should be very short like "News and notes"or "Arbitration report". How about "Arbitration statistics"? I can move the draft there, or you can do it.

Yes, getting a quote from Arbcom was a good idea. The October interview has some other quotes about case duration and overall workload (e.g. the statement that the proportion of "behind the scenes" work that is not visible in open cases is increasing).

Be prepared for quite some scrutiny of the significance and interpretation of the data after the story is published. It's good that you already addressed one likely question - whether the high number of cases at the beginning of 2008 is an outlier. But one could also ask about the reasons for starting at the beginning of 2008 (I understand that in 2007 there were some changes in the process?), or what the trends would look like if the window would begin in June 2008, say.

The observations in the second section the relation between complexity and length of a case are a bit unclear. The statement "none of which were of large complexity (as none required more than two months to reach completion)" already seems to assume the correlation between the two which the rest of the section tries to demonstrate. And while the number of evidence submissions seems a good choice for a measurement of complexity, strictly speaking a correlation can't be calculated just from a few examples - did you count the number of evidence submission for each case in the dataset?

Strictly speaking, it is not quite true that "the time for cases to be resolved [h]as steadily grown", this seems to be a statement about the trendline only (and to call it logarithmic seems a bit over-precise?).

When examining possible causes, don't forget that the number of edits per month has declined somewhat since 2008.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 12:54, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

I think most of the issues above have been changed in the article (including the move to Arbitration Statistics). The simple reason I started in January 2008 with the data analysis was to cover a simple 24-month period, which probably (I'm no amazing statistician) is enough time to make reasonable inferences from increases or decreases. I appreciate your support for the article which I think will be interesting for the next edition of the Signpost. Cheers, Lord Roem (talk) 15:20, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! I made some further changes per the above. (I don't need being credited in the byline for this, but if you feel I should take the blame for the added sentence, just add me there ;)

Regards, HaeB (talk) 04:12, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

RefToolbar

Try Wikipedia talk:RefToolbar 2.0#Troubleshooting and let me know if you have any luck. Kaldari (talk) 18:22, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! Clearing the cache didn't help immediately, but after restarting the browser (and making some changes in the preferences I didn't keep track of) it's visible now. Regards, HaeB (talk) 12:49, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

WP Report

Thanks for fixing the mistake. -Mabeenot (talk) 21:02, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Signpost article done

Okay, I've finished my first article. I really have no idea what to do now so I thought I'd let you know. Gamaliel (talk) 02:16, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Great work, especially getting the quotes! I've taken the liberty to add mention of the Slashdot story, which is likely to have driven much attention, too, and appeared before the BoingBoing one. The general remarks in the second paragraph don't seem very necessary to me, also because the attitudes described are already nicely illustrated by the quotes you cite for this particular case, but that's not a big issue.

I'll take care of the formatting (e.g. the footer) and the rest that's needed before publication. I might still integrate it back into "In the news" if that section remains short. If we run it as a separate story, I might change Old Man Murray in the subtitle ("Old Man Murray article deletion angers gaming community") to something more decriptive, as many Signpost readers might not be familiar with the name (I for one had never heard about it until now). For a special story, we also need a very short (about two words) section title (such as "Arbitration statistics" in the last issue), any ideas?

Regards, HaeB (talk) 04:49, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! I haven't done any news writing since college, but apparently it's like riding a bicycle. It was a lot of fun and I'll definitely tackle it again very soon - the next issue if time permits. Good call on the Slashdot link; I would have added it had I known about it. That second paragraph does stick out a bit and were it not so close to deadline and past my bedtime I'd try to rework it. And you're absolutely right about the title. What started this mess was that no one besides gamers knows what OMM is, so putting it in the title might not work well. I can't think of another title that isn't clunky though. "Gaming review website article deletion angers gamers" isn't that catchy. A two word title sounds even more dull. "Deletion controversy"? That's probably better than something more informal like "AFD Anger" or "Gamer Gripes". Gamaliel (talk) 07:03, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Name on Signpost

Hi, I was a contributor to the Wikiproject Feminism interview. Is it alright if I'm only referenced as Danger? I'm going through a name userption right now and I really really despise the old one at this point. I've changed it, but if this isn't kosher, revert away. --Danger (talk) 00:16, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Well, as long as there's no confusion about which you actual account is, it should be OK. Regards, HaeB (talk) 05:00, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

It's always linked to my current account. (Which will become a redirect to my new one if the ursurption ever goes through, so the archives will still be good.) --Danger (talk) 11:37, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Yes, that fine. By the way, I couldn't help but chuckle at the "ethereal entity" and (more seriously) as someone who likes to keep most real-life information (if not gender) separate from my Wikipedia contributions, I think you are setting a good example in the report.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 11:42, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. I'm finding that the human operating the Danger persona is leaking through more and more, but they try. --Danger (talk) 16:40, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Hold the press?

I agree that WP Japan needs to be postponed in light of the disaster and ongoing trauma in Japan. If still possible, I'd like to have the Report page published in the Signpost with a brief note and the news sidebar. -Mabeenot (talk) 01:20, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Oh. Too late. -Mabeenot (talk) 01:22, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Right, it's not possible to add a section now (e.g. because the mailing list announcements are already out and can't be changed). I thought briefly about moving the sidebar news to N&N, but they didn't seem too time-critical. As SMasters points out, we could have run the upcoming report for WP Medicine instead - well, next time! Regards, HaeB (talk) 01:28, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

John Michael Wright copyvio

If you want some background here, I wrote the article back in 2007/8 (as User:Doc glasgow. When I was told it was about to appear as TFA, I was mucking about seeing how it played on Google. I discovered the NPG was using it - and without any attribution to Wikipedia - indeed falsely claiming their own copyright. I posted the matter to wiki-en-1,[11] because I found it amusing that the NPG which so objected to someone allegedly breaching their copyright, (see [12]) was being so blaze about infringing mine. "They threw bricks at Derrick, now it appears they are inhabiting a glass-house.". HTH.--Scott Mac 01:09, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! I had already seen the Wikien-l thread (cf. [13]) and am aware of the 2009 threat (which was also covered in the Signpost). I take the bricks sentence to be intended as a quote, let's see... Regards, HaeB (talk) 02:23, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Nah, it's a poor quote. I guess the irony is apparent anyway. But it does seem that the WMF has since formed a better relationship with the NPG, so they may respond positively to the informal approaches others have indicated. I'm bowing out of this now, others seem to have a handle on it.--Scott Mac 10:50, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Image issue at F and A

What is your opinion? Are the number and size of images currently OK? Should changes be made? Generally, I dislike galleries, and prefer to select just a few images and display them large. Tony (talk) 16:11, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

I like the large images in F&A, but I too have seen (slight) problems with the layout in the past, and if (if!) there are several readers reporting that it doesn't work at all for their browser/screen combination, we should take that seriously. In other words, I think that might actually be a quite thorny web design question for which I don't really have a qualified opinion ready. Regards, HaeB (talk) 12:21, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Signpost report

I've made the advised changes to my report; anything else that needs to be done? Ironholds (talk) 21:01, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Sue Gardner has given you a cookie! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. From Sue: HaeB, I hereby bestow upon you this cookie in appreciation for your editing of The Signpost. The Signpost is really, really great at helping the enWP community stay informed about important goings-on: I am really glad you are working on it :-)†

Very kind, appreciate it, thanks! Of course the Signpost is very much a collective effort ;) Regards, HaeB (talk) 14:02, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

Ragesoss has given you a cupcake! Cupcakes promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cupcake, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. One treat isn't enough for you. It's hard to overstate how great you've been for The Signpost.†

That's a really nice compliment, thanks! Regards, HaeB (talk) 14:02, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

thanks

for responding on signpost, Tom B (talk) 23:01, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Infobox journalist

You recently contributed to the Template:Infobox journalist. Your input is requested for the following discussion: Template talk:Infobox journalist#Twitter. Thank You. --Flyguy33 (talk) 06:56, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Re:Signpost

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CU on german wikipedia

Hiyas HaeB,

as you are part of the CheckUser-team in de-WP and the designated member for the case of de:Benutzer:Diskriminierung according to the discussion there, I'd like to know if there will be any update message (or even result) about that specific case in the sooner future. --Odeesi (talk) 16:44, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi Odeesi, I do hope so. Any reason you are asking here and not on de:? (Btw if you meant to say that there are new aspects adding to the necessity of knowing the decision or result soon, feel free to describe them at the request page.) Regards, HaeB (talk) 09:12, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Well, there ain't any new aspects or incidents that I know (besides of those that were added since you gave us an update-message), but the main reason I contacted you here was that according to user:contribs you seem to be more active here than @ de-WP. So I thought the chance may be higher to catch ya here ;) --Odeesi (talk) 12:18, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

CheckUser from October 2010. If you are not able to do this job, please tell it. --212.23.103.19 (talk) 13:06, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Unclear what this was referring to - all requests from October 2010 have been closed long ago. Regards, HaeB (talk) 15:11, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

In the news

WP was cited by the New York correspondent of the BBC on the World Service/Radio 4 this morning, before the president's confirmatory announcement, as already having Osama bin Laden's death on his page. I am surprised that he was surprised. Rich Farmbrough, 19:14, 2 May 2011 (UTC).

Interesting, thanks! (Is there a link to an online recording, e.g. the BBC's iPlayer page?) Unfortunately there was no time left to write it up for this week's issue, but I assume we will cover OBL next week - there are other newsworthy aspects about it from the Signpost's perspective, e.g. the traffic spike noted at WP:POST/TIPS. Regards, HaeB (talk) 09:12, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

I am not sure about the iPlayer, but if you are covering the traffic spike (Abottabad certainly got busy), you might want to also investigate any traffic anomalies relating to the royal wedding - I am imagining a lull, certinly at the time of the ceremony itself. Rich Farmbrough, 11:35, 3 May 2011 (UTC).

GOCE drive newsletter

The Guild of Copy Editors – May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive The Guild of Copy Editors invite you to participate in the May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive began on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to eliminate as many articles as possible from the 2009 backlog and to reduce the overall backlog by 15%. ! NEW ! In an effort to encourage the final elimination of all 2009 articles, we will be tracking them on the leaderboard for this drive. Awards and barnstars A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants. Some are exclusive to GOCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page. We look forward to meeting you on the drive! Your GOCE coordinators: SMasters, Diannaa, Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest

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YM still receiving the Signpost

Hello HaeB. I saw your name as a person who is active in delivering the Signpost. User:YellowMonkey, inactive since last year, is still getting the Signpost, even though his name is not on the Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Tools/Spamlist. Do you know any way the deliveries could be stopped? Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 00:27, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

The user has been removed from the subscription list on May 4, and actually didn't receive the last (May 9) issue [14]. Regards, HaeB (talk) 06:23, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into this. EdJohnston (talk) 13:47, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Adminproblem

Hallo HaeB, falls du es nicht schon gesehen hast: Schau doch bitte mal nebenan vorbei: de:Wikipedia:Administratoren/Probleme/Checkuser-Problem mit HaeB. Irgendeine Form von Statement wäre sicher hilfreich. Wenn ich Marcus richtig interpretiere, schiessen die Gerüchte ins Kraut. Schöne Grüße,--Wiggum (talk) 14:06, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi Wiggum, hatte ich in der Tat drüben bereits gesehen (und dann gleich beantwortet), aber trotzdem vielen Dank. Grüße, HaeB (talk) 12:34, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

IRC?

Hi, I've buzzed you at the Signpost IRC. Tony (talk) 15:20, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Glad we managed to meet there eventually ;) In general, if I'm not reacting to an IRC ping, I'm likely to be afk (as in this case) or busy anyway. Regards, HaeB (talk) 12:34, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

20,000

I notice that you've reached 20,000 edits. Congrats! -Mabeenot (talk) 00:57, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

(reply at User talk:Mabeenot. Regards, HaeB (talk) 12:34, 20 May 2011 (UTC))

Talkback

Hello, HaeB. You have new messages at Rcsprinter123's talk page.
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Did you get them? Rcsprinter (talk) 19:24, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

I had read your reply, thanks! I have also noted your project here. Regards, HaeB (talk) 15:11, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Foundation updates

Howdy HaeB. By tomorrow, we should have the March board minutes and a new chapter approval coming out. – SJ +

Thanks for the heads-up! Regards, HaeB (talk) 01:27, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Yes if you need any further details about the new chapter drop me a note. :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:28, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer, sent you an e-mail. Regards, HaeB (talk) 15:11, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia in the comics

[15] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:10, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, will be mentioned, see also [16] and WP:POST/TIPS. Regards, HaeB (talk) 15:11, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Signpost

Got your IRC note. I don't think I'm a good choice to write this up; I'm good at collating information, but the style of writing here isn't my forte. However it should be summarized enough that anyone can take it and put it into an appropriate tone and use it with very little time or effort. My aim was mainly to ensure it was accurately covered by summarizing the event carefully. FT2 ^{(Talk | email)} 18:39, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

I think you are being too modest ;) What you wrote about the outage on the suggestions page was indeed in a talk page writing style, but the second tip you posted afterwards, about the Robots.txt issue, was ready to go into the Signpost with just very little editing, as Jarry1250 noted. In any case thanks for the tips.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 00:23, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Developer communication suggestion

Please see a suggestion I made at User_talk:TheDJ#Communication_idea. What's the best way to pursue discussion? (Probably not at TheDJ's talkpage.) Thanks. Rd232 ^talk 23:06, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi, WT:POST should be a good venue to discuss this, a page which you appear to have found in the meantime. Just some quick thoughts here: I think it is an idea with a lot of potential, and I agree with what you said about (lack of) communication. The Technology Report section of the Signpost already sometimes does something like this, for example check out the series that Jarry1250 did last year where the Google Summer of Code students presented their projects (first issue, last issue), or this story which I based mainly on an IRC interview and other information provided by a Foundation employee about his (then) current project. If you want to organize something like this (it's probably easier to get people to provide one-off snapshot reports first, before aiming at the "(semi)regular basis" you mention), go ahead. Of course it would be good to inform Jarry1250 (the regular writer for the Tech report) and me in order to avoid duplicate efforts, but otherwise feel free to ask developers if they would like to contribute.

Some context: The Foundation's Tech Department has made recently made considerable efforts to improve communication with the commmunity, with the hiring of "bugmeister" Mark Hershberger, Sumana Harihareswara as Volunteer Development Coordinator and Guillaume Paumier focusing a lot on communication (like writing posting on the WMF Techblog). They could perhaps sometimes offer advice or assistance, e.g. set up contact with a particular developer.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 00:23, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

OK, thanks. I hope you don't mind I copied your message to WT:POST. Rd232 ^talk 00:38, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

also

I removed about a dozen of them from NAN. And corrected a raft of - hyphens – into the almost universally required dashes. Would you like to include the dash script in your vector space? Hundreds do. Please don't use a hyphen in the FC subtitle that goes out to talk pages. Tony (talk) 04:17, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

The section subtitles as they appear in the talk page messages are always copied and pasted from the subtitles in the sections themselves, so just make sure that the latter reflect your preference at publication time.

Thanks for copyediting. I count six removed alsos, only half of them by me, and those arguably justifiable for the purpose of establishing the flow, but I will watch my usage of this addictive and dangerous substance more closely ;)

And you know I really don't like having to spend time to correct errors which had been introduced during copyedits, even when potentially meaning-changing alterations are flagged in the edit summary or in HTML comments (which I appreciate). In this case one was found by someone else after publication.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 00:23, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Re: Signpost book review

Sure; I've been interested in the work of the "Critical Point of View" group, & wished I could have participated in it beyond a reader. Thanks for thinking of me. I'm snagging the first section, & will try to get it to you ASAP. (BTW, I've been wrestling with writing a review of Richard Yeo's Encyclopedic Visions. While I believe it is of great interest to Wikipedians, it is a, well, encyclopedic work, & requires a lot of thought to distill down into a brief review.) -- llywrch (talk) 23:56, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Update: I've prepared a working draft of my review here, HaeB. I wasn't certain where to submit it for your consideration, & with my available time reduced to scraps I thought it better to alert you to what I've written sooner than to wait until I found the correct place to submit it. (And you are welcome to chide me for my repeated flaunting of procedure. :) -- llywrch (talk) 06:20, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Idea

Create a mini-project to bring the articles of Neda, Mohamed Bouazizi, Khaled Said, and Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb up to GA/FA status. Possibly expand to include others whose deaths became symbols of war and peace (i.e. Pat Tillman). Would you like to work on something like this? Ocaasi ^{t | c} 23:47, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals/HistoryBioLife. Might need a new name, but check it out... Ocaasi ^{t | c} 04:00, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Interview with WikiProject Wikipedia-Books has gone horribly wrong

Hello, I believe that you, as the executive editor of the Signpost, you should be made aware of the situation developing in this coming signpost's WikiProject interview section. Please see Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-06-06/WikiProject report and User talk:SMasters#Signpost editing. I enjoy reading the signpost, but this is now the second time that poor editorial form has made me regret contributing to it. Sven Manguard Wha? 18:57, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

I would prefer it if you could suggest specific changes to address your most pressing concerns, and work with SMasters to incorporate them. In general, there has to be some editing and shortening (I think Signpost readers don't need to know how the wife of a WikiProject member looks like, and SMasters' gave a legitimate justification for this cut that Headbomb complained about, although it would have been better to avoid that misunderstanding in the first place by phrasing the question better). But if you can point to a specific sentence and explain clearly why it mislead the reader into believing something wrong, that should be remedied. Regards, HaeB (talk) 19:12, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

The first question, was put into prose to form the introduction. There is nothing unusual about this, and is a well known and used literary technique. The question about collaboration was about inter-WikiProject collaboration, not about personal collaboration. This is, after all, the WikiProject Report. As such, I decided to remove the question. However, there were one or two points which I thought were good, and worth mentioning. But as the question had been removed, I thought rather than waste these gems, I would use a literary device to add them to the end of other responses. Since there was unhappiness over this, I removed them. The final question was about anything else that one might like to add. I then added them to where I thought it was appropriate and made sense, and removed the question due to length considerations. I did not change any quotes (except to correct errors, and for clarity or brevity). I edited this piece in good faith, and meant well in terms of helping promote the cause of this WikiProject. The complaints imply that I have gone and changed what was said in the interview, which simply did not happen. As such, HaeB, I leave it up to you, what you want to do. I meant well, but there is now so much bad faith in this whole saga, that I am so unhappy with it. I have never ever had any complaints about my editing in the past, and the very public attack on me is upsetting me. HaeB, if you run with this I hope that as my boss, you will stand by me. If not, I will be very happy if you pulled this article out and not publish it. This might just be the solution now, to make everybody happy. But I leave this decision to you. – SMasters (talk) 00:13, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Please also see User_talk:SMasters#Signpost_editing when making your decision. Cheers. – SMasters (talk) 00:18, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Glad to see that things seem to have calmed down and everyone appears to AGF. I would still be prepared to make post-publication changes in case someone describes a serious and concrete problem as outlined above, but apart from that we should consider the case closed. Of course this kind of thing must have happened countless times before in the history of journalistic interviews, so don't be too frustrated - just consider it a learning experience ;) Regards, HaeB (talk) 06:31, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Movement roles piece and/or series

I proposed a new piece for next week: Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom Is that the right way to do so? See the notes on a possible series. – SJ + 01:47, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Question

Hi, I left a question at Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost#Op-ed_pieces.3F. I know you're busy, but I'm just hoping for a quick answer :) Cheers, /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 03:23, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

(Replied there. Regards, HaeB (talk) 18:13, 9 June 2011 (UTC))

Six month...

... and still no result on de:Wikipedia:Checkuser/Anfragen#(8. Dezember) - Benutzer:Diskriminierung. Six months is quite a long time for a CU, even it may be not that easy to say X is Y is Z-sockpuppet. But as you are very active here on en-WP, it starts to look like you aren't really interested in ending this CU-case, especially as the administrator problem was closed and prolly the Schiedgericht will not accept the case with the reason that they aren't really responsible for the case. So I'd suggest you give the users @ de-WP another update message or give the case to someone who really is interested in solving that case. Sincerly

--Odeesi (talk) 22:04, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi Odeesi, like above I am a bit puzzled by the remarks with respect to the English Wikipedia, and the conclusions you are drawing. My last statements about the case are still valid. Regards, HaeB (talk) 18:13, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Das ist inzwischen auch drei Wochen her, und es scheint mir beim Studieren Deiner Beitragsliste in diesem Projekt nicht so, dass Du Dich um einen Abschluss der Anfrage besonders bemühen würdest. Da Du zuletzt am 25. Juli 2009 gewählt wurdest, bitte ich Dich dringend, die Anfrage vor dem nächsten CU-Wahltermin abzuschliessen. Die Chancen, dass Du im Amt bestätigt wirst, sehe ich nämlich aktuell als relativ gering an. -- 80.139.48.76 (talk) 12:31, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Look, I don't know - and won't investigate - whether you are the same person as Odeesi and 212.23.103.19, but I can't help observing that it is the second time someone is making blatantly false statements in this context here (about something that is very easy to check). And noticing your (Odeesi's) recent blocks on dewiki: This project has an equivalent policy. I understand a certain amount of frustration, but please assume good faith and accept that a lot of time has been and is being spent on this case, not only by me btw. As I said, my last statements about the case are still valid, as is Bdk's. Regards, HaeB (talk) 21:28, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Ich bin ien Mensch mir einem wirklich großen Verständnis für sehr viel. Hierfür nicht mehr. Der sauberste Weg, der den wenigsten Schaden für das Instrument CU bedeutet, wäre wohl dein freiwilliger Rückzug als CU. Dann könnte ein Neuer gewählt werden, der das angeht. Bislang stand für mich eine Ablösung von dir eigentlich nicht im Raum. Aber irgendwann reicht es wirklich. Marcus Cyron (talk) 00:08, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Ich kann mich dem nur anschließen. Deine nachhaltige Untätigkeit ist intolerabel und beschädigt das Projekt. --(de):Athanasian (talk) 08:31, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi Athanasian, since you are actually heavily involved in the conflict area that this request is about: Do we agree that the purpose of Checkuser in such cases is to provide evidence of potential abuse? Do I understand you correctly that you suspect abuse in this case, and need evidence? Or is it something else?

And I would appreciate it if you would stop posting in German here (it is not polite towards other users), and would use the appropriate venues on dewiki instead, which are regularly monitored by myself and the other German Wikipedians who are actually interested in the case. This also applies to Marcus. Regards, HaeB (talk) 21:28, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

If you not even want to answer no but just not comment on my question, I still would be very much interested to know whether you have read my question by Wikimail from 2011-06-08. --Pjacobi (talk) 16:00, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, I genuinely thought my mail may have been lost, but it was the case that your answer was lost in my spam filter. --Pjacobi (talk) 19:58, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying. And for the (public) record, the answer was no. Regards, HaeB (talk) 21:28, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

@HaeB: "Do we agree that the purpose of Checkuser in such cases is to provide evidence of potential abuse" Yes! Thats the point. Witch evidence of abuse does exist, justifying a CU?
If you see evidence, than you should provide them on the CU page. Even a preliminary result of your investigations would be helpful. For everyone. Within the context of that case allready existing administrator statements, which see indications of an evangelical network, manipulating the german wikipedia. ("dass es Indizien dafür gibt, dass [...] nur ein Teil der Aktivität eines Netzwerkes mit evangelikalem Hintergrund darstellt, welches die deutsche Wikipedia unethisch und regelwidrig zu manipulieren" [17]) The rumors, spreading since six month, are far more detrimental than the disclosure of facts of evedidence you can provide.
If you have no evidence, than just do what a CU has to do: terminate the CU with that conclusion. It is not the task of the CU to investigate several month in a case, just to find "something". --Arcy (talk) 17:00, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi HaeB, to answer your posting above - I do not understand myself as "actually heavily involved in the conflict area that this request is about" as (1) I withdrawed from the main topic of this conflict (more than six month ago) because I changed my mind to its main point, and (2) this request is about abuse of sockpuppets and I did not find my name on the list. I could hardly refuse that this remark consignes questions... maybe you could define what kind of "involvement" you find according to my person - except a handfull of actions at the beginning of the CU to ensure fairness. On the other hand I can see the paralysis this stagnant CUA causes in several articles I am interested in. A lot of Wiki authors including myself are "suspecting abuse in this case" (the question for me is not, if, but how far the abuse is going), "and need evidence" to continue article working without mistrust. The length of this CUA is ununderstandable and intolerable; your explanations for this exception are unsatisfying. As far as the community awards independency to the CUs, it can expect the work will be done efficient. --(de):Athanasian (talk) 22:27, 15 June 2011 (UTC) P.S. The time is over to let you disappear from German Wikipedia to the English speaking oasis. It won't work that way. --(de):Athanasian (talk) 22:30, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Your P.S. is mistaken and offensive on so many levels. First, far from having "disappeared" I continue to be reachable for dewiki users by wikimail, IRC and my dewiki talk page, which weirdly enough hasn't seen any comments about this case for over a month - and I replied to the last comment (that Marcus left there on May 17th) within three hours. On the contrary, you should ask yourself why you insisted on making this conversation "disappear" from the project that it actually concerns, and instead hold it here within a different community to which it is irrelevant.

Secondly, I have been focusing my dewiki activities on Checkuser (and been having a higher edit count on enwiki) since about 2007 - contrary to your insinuations, this has nothing to do with the current case. (And as stated on my user page, I had my accounts renamed in 2008 to make it clear that they belong to the same person.)

Third, while the English Wikipedia is a magnificent project overall, its characterization as a peaceful and conflict-free "oasis", on which your criticism is based, must appear as absurd to anyone with just a cursory knowledge.

Fourth, while I (and not only I) had already spent a significant amount of my free time on this case - even way before your comments -, I am under no obligation to spend my entire free time on it, not even the Wikipedia-related part of it. And the complexity of such Checkuser cases means that they often necessitate hours of uninterrupted, focused work, unlike a quick watchlist check and a few vandalism reverts. Like you, I am a volunteer and my motivation is part fun, part commitment.

I could go on, but won't. Regards, HaeB (talk) 22:47, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Arcy and Athanasius, it seems that we actually don't fully agree about the purpose of Checkuser. Your remarks appear to be based on the wrong assumption that CU can provide conclusive evidence to disprove potential abuse, that it can enable "working without mistrust" and dispel "rumors".

We have stressed for years that this is not true (not because we wouldn't want to use the CU tool to prove someone's "innocence", but for basic technical reasons). We even included it as one of the central points to remember in the request page preamble, which you do not appear to have read in its entirety.

Athanasius, you failed to explain what you mean by "paralysis". The only plausible guess was the fact that the account at the center of this Checkuser request had been essentially inactive since shortly after the beginning of the request. In most people's view, this would let the case to be appear less urgent, not more urgent.

As we explained in the case's conclusion remarks today, it forms part of the German Wikipedia's most entrenched and long-term conflicts, nicknamed "schwuppikal" because it involves opposing viewpoints from gay end evangelical activists. It is well-known that both of you are regular participants in this (on the same side as the account at the center of this CU request; I will note that as recently as last week, in an ArbCom case you, Athanasius, were referred to as a "declared supporter" of his in this CU case). This is what I was referring to with "heavily involved in the conflict area", without implying any sockpuppet abuse or other misdeeds on your part. I merely was interested in your perspective as someone that might have more knowledge about current problems than mere "Checkuser spectators", of which there seem to have been a lot in this case.

Lastly, I will note that I am not responsible for debunking rumors. And actually Tinz, whom you (Arcy) were quoting, is IMHO a very thoughtful person (a former WMF ombudsman).

Regards, HaeB (talk) 22:47, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Well, as I started this "thread" (to use board terms), I'd like to thank you, HaeB, that finally this case is closed. You proved what imho already was known and the accounts that were involved/abused by the user the CU was about got blocked. So... thank you for closing the case and sorry if I/we from de-WP got a bit on your nerves... hope ya gonna forgive us :P --Odeesi (talk) 07:17, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

1. No i full aggree with your sentence "Do we agree that the purpose of Checkuser in such cases is to provide evidence of potential abuse".
2. I've read your statements on WP:DE and have one remark: You did not explain where the abuse was when the CU has been initially been written and you did not write about the enviroment it has promoted within the german wikipedia. Many people meanwhile think and see that ostensible anti pov pushing users use the tools "VM" and CU just for kicking out obvious opponents and even users whom they think they could be. On sample was the one week lock out of user D. (evangelical fraction) because he defended himself against the accusation "vandalismn".[18]
3. Your statement "it involves opposing viewpoints from gay end evangelical activists" is insofar wrong as there have also been other people involved, who where neither gay nor evangelist "activists", but heavily opposed by both. I think it is a very one-dimensional viewpoint to reduce the conflicts of indvidual users down to "evangelical network" (tinz) / activists versus gay activists (-; network ? :-). Some of them have their conflicts and battles elsewhere (til everywhere) too. Regarding activism within the german wikipedia it could be a sign for increasing political power struggles to obtain the opinion ledership.
4. By the way: within the most controversal theme "World Vision" the antihomosexual impetus of the evangelical movements has more or less never been a point of discussion. There was nearly only a ridiculous wording battle about the article introduction whether World Vision "is evangelical" "has an evangelical background" (which was accepted by the evangelical "front") or "is christian-evangelical". The editwar was at least about that only "is evangelical" should be used.

--Arcy (talk) 18:52, 20 June 2011 (UTC) (neither this nor that)

1. Excellent. But then I don't understand why you so urgently demanded something else from it.
2. The first assertion is not correct - it seems that you overlooked this section. The linked "sample" occured before the start of this CU request; I really don't understand why you expected me to comment on it.
3. Of course there have been other people involved, but I didn't claim otherwise - please read de:wikt:involve or consult some other English-German dictionary, e.g. PONS. Misunderstandings like this are another reason why it would have been preferable to hold this conversation on de:, in German, but I realize that your indefinite ban there (recently upheld by the German ArbCom) prevented you from doing so.
4. True, but no one claimed otherwise. And on the other hand, several of the accounts blocked after this CU were certainly involved such religion/LGBT (example 1, example 2).

Regards, HaeB (talk) 21:18, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi HaeB, a last remark to your answer above (by the way: you didn't see that before, did you?). Of course we fully agree about the purpose of CU! Because of "paralysis" see comments like this and that. If I had known in March what I know now it would have prevented me from many AGF given false, and also from many time given in superfluous discussions. This case just needed to come to an end. I understand your critics to my P.S. I articulated the disproportion of talking here and being silent there. You rather seemed to be a little too "high on a tree" this time, so if you come down to half of the distance next time there will be surely less rumor. I apologize for it anyway. I didn't want to hurt you. So at last: Thank you for your hard work. Have a good time. Regards, --(de):Athanasian (talk) 13:34, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Don't worry, I am not taking your remarks personally. But I am seriously beginning to suspect that you need to reevaluate the way you form assumptions about other users: "you didn't see that before, did you?" - even if you don't believe my repeated assertion that I regularly monitor my German talk page and assume that I recklessly deactivated the talk page e-mail notification, do you seriously think that anyone who has spent months preparing a 37kB decision wouldn't visit the wiki at least once during the following days, just out of personal curiousity about the reactions? "it would have prevented me from many AGF given false" - this goes back to the same problem: It is not the main purpose of Checkuser to correct psychological misjudgements some users might have developed about some other users (although I do acknowledge that this can be an additional benefit), compare also the Foundation's privacy policy. The main purpose is to enable administrative actions, such as some of these that have been taken now. The two comments you cite, while not quite supporting such a strong statement about "paralysis", did indeed express an expectation in this direction, and your reply to my June 14 question would have convinced me more if you had cited them back then. (Still, I had expected something like "the suspected sockpuppet X has been continuing to make major changes in article Y yesterday and today", to support the sense of urgency that had been expressed.)

"the disproportion of talking here and being silent there" is a function of the disproportion of the number of questions on my talk pages here and there, which includes your own.

Have a good time too, and again, I didn't allege any wrongdoing on your part; anyone who is engaged in such difficult conflict areas to uphold Wikipedia's principles deserves respect.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 21:18, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

By the way, German WMF ombudsman Thogo has just posted an English language summary of the context of this Checkuser case, including recent media coverage, on Foundation-l: [19]. Regards, HaeB (talk) 21:18, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Signpost

Decide this. I tend to lose these arguments anyhow. ResMar 02:43, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

YHM,  Roger Davies ^talk 14:20, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Regarding bylines: The paragraph has largely been rewritten since I last touched it (thanks Tony1!). I would really prefer not to be listed; is there any chance you could do this as a favor to me? Best, NW (Talk) 18:21, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi NW, first let me say that I was grateful that you rewrote the story, and that I assume your main motivation to remove your name was commendable modesty; but I hope you understand why I reinserted it: One purpose of bylines is to assign responsibility for significant parts of the writing, especially those that might be controversial. To pick a hypothetical example, some reader might oppose to naming the leaker.

The current version (and also Tony's) still contains relevant content authored by you, but if it is important to you, I will try to rewrite it further and take responsibility myself.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 19:19, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Fair enough. I would be grateful if you could implement your suggestion, but it's up to you. NW (Talk) 19:42, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Done. Regards, HaeB (talk) 01:05, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

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Really short Wikipedia URLs

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I wrote a comment there. Regards, HaeB (talk) 23:04, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

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Article about a WMF supported research project hosted by Harvard University in the next issue of the Signpost (Monday, July 4th)?

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removal of Wikinews article on Signpost

Hello. Would you mind explaining this edit, specifically your removal of my link to the Wikinews article regarding the National Archives Wikipedian in Residence? I understand that my formatting may not have complied with the Signpost's style, but I don't see why the link had to be removed. Ragettho (talk) 15:07, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

My apologies. I just found it in "News and Notes", as your edit suggested. Happy editing! Ragettho (talk) 15:28, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Glad you noticed the edit summary ;) As for the formatting, note that listing bare links isn't really what the Signpost aims for; at least a sentence for context (such as the one Tom wrote for "News and notes") is appreciated, and a summary of the most newsworthy aspects (for Wikimedians) would be even better - you are still welcome to add one there during the next few hours.

Thanks for contributing to the Signpost, and congratulations on the interview, it must have been quite some work.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 15:36, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for informing me on the Signpost's style guidelines, and also for your kind words. :) I've added a summary of newsworthy aspects, as you suggested. Cheers, Ragettho (talk) 18:19, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

An apology

I would just like to take the time to apologise for not forewarning of my absence on the Tech Report for yesterday (I got back at approximately midnight, and was thus unavailable). I can only assume that this was an oversight on my part when sending the various notifications out immediately before I left. Sorry for the hassle and for picking up the dropped ball on this one. (I shall also leave a note for Ryan.) Just about to copyedit the report - only tiny things though, per protocol. Regards, - Jarry1250 ^{[Weasel? Discuss.]} 11:11, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Have now read your email (and copyedited the report). No, I have not heard from Tomasz; and GSoC isn't progressing at the moment. I'm afraid it's a character fault of mine that when it comes to Wikipedia activities I hate pushing people; I just tend to have limited resources and focus them on the easier wins. Which is disappointing from a journalistic POV of course, so I shall try to follow up on these in the near future. Also :( on your final paragraph. Regards, - Jarry1250 ^{[Weasel? Discuss.]} 11:45, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Glad you are alive ;) No seriously, I eventually saw your status notice (and have watchlisted the page now). I think a little nudge can actually be helpful for and appreciated by people, so you shouldn't feel too bad about it. Regards, HaeB (talk) 23:04, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Arbitration report for 7/4/11

Could you look over [20] please? I understand that in general, the Signpost does not do major post-publishing edits. But honestly, we're not some monolithic bureaucracy; I cannot see any justification for rejecting a clarifying edit like the one I added. NW (Talk) 15:48, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Because it makes little sense to change the text here when it's published without that text elsewhere (particularly when elsewhere is more public than the on-wiki pages). I've left a clarifying statement on the talk page in relation to your concern. Ncmvocalist (talk) 15:53, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Ncm, there is a reason I posted here and not on your talk page. Please let HaeB answer. NW (Talk) 16:33, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

It appears that the issue has become mostly moot as Shell herself has now confirmed a connection between the leak and the resignation. I'm not sure if I would have written it in the same way as Ncmvocalist, but a certain amount of "connecting the dots" is acceptable and even desired in the Signpost. The question remain whether the wording gave the impression that it was her who "leaked any email threads from the mailing list", or that it was her account that was hacked. It didn't give these impressions when I read it at publication time, in fact my first guess was that it might have to do with the publication of private information about herself (remember NYB's resignation years ago). I just reverted a change of the subtitle because during publication they are reproduced elsewhere (e.g. mailing lists) where they can't be changed. The text of stories shouldn't be changed significantly either (see also Wikipedia:Signpost/About), an exception being major factual errors - the kind of thing a traditional newspaper would run a correction note for. But if there is a problem here, I think it is not quite on that level. Regards, HaeB (talk) 23:04, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

You are right that there is a connection of sorts, but I read Shell's 'drumroll' post as being more a reaction to the WMF support (or lack of it) than to the actual leaks themselves. At the least, it seems there is more to the story, and one would hope that next week's issue will follow this aspect of things up. Of course, as things aren't changed post-publication, it can't be covered in this week's edition. Hopefully it won't be old news by this time next week - though having said that, I think the Signpost publishing on a weekly schedule has an obligation to fill its readers in on developments that take place between each week's publication. Carcharoth (talk) 02:48, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

I agree that this item (or indeed the whole leaks story) might merit a follow-up in next week's edition. Regards, HaeB (talk) 09:31, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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A barnstar for you!

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	For keeping the Signpost rolling. Mabeenot (talk) 21:25, 8 July 2011 (UTC) & Ncmvocalist (talk) 22:55, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

• There are so many barnstars that you deserve, and so many kind words you really should have received from me. Unfortunately, I neglected to provide much of either to my satisfaction, and although things have been hectic as always, I should have found the time. For the moment, I'll keep things succinct and add my signature to the barnstars Tom Morris and Mabeenot have given you, which sum up a couple of my thoughts (and the tokens of appreciation you should have received earlier). I wish you could have stayed on for longer, at least until a particular time, but I may be too late. :( Either way, you will be missed (and thank you for your kind words and appreciation). Regards, Ncmvocalist (talk) 22:55, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

• I was sorry to hear of your departure; The Signpost reached new heights under your stewardship. I thank you for your diligence and dedication, and wish you the best in your future endeavours, Skomorokh 13:51, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Again, congratulations! You'll be missed. I look forward to your final from the editor piece.

— Pretzels ^Hii! 22:26, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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A kitten for you!

Thanks for your hard work at the Signpost.

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Jay Maisel

I just wanted to give you a heads up that I reverted your edit at Jay Maisel. In your edit summary you mentioned a discussion on the talk page. I believe you were referring to an earlier discussion and missed the most recent discussion at Talk:Jay_Maisel#Relevance_of_Controversy. If I am mistaken, please let me know. Dimension31 (talk) 04:39, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Editor's Barnstar
	I'm sorry to read you're stepping down from The Signpost. You've done great work there, and I wish you the best of luck in your new role. :) — Cirt (talk) 18:42, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Piling on

Thanks for all the hard work and diligence you've put into The Signpost. For the past year, I've read each issue religiously and without exception have found it informative and genuinely interesting. Rivertorch (talk) 22:48, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks for you hard work. Who do I now forwards recent news too? We are now indexed on the site TRIP Database per here [21] thus slowly making inroads with academics. --Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:33, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Ping

I emailed you. Tony (talk) 06:48, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you

Thanks for this edit. It's probably the first time I've ever contested a page-move such as this, and wasn't really sure what to do with it. Happy editing, and regards. :)  -- WikHead (talk) 01:24, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

South Korean chapter

Hi, I had an inquiry about whether a story on it has ever been run in The Signpost. Can't find anything in the archives, so might you recall? Cheers. Tony (talk) 02:49, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

It does not seem so. I'm only aware of this story (and this suggestion for a Sister project story, sadly not realized yet), both about the Korean Wikipedia rather than about a chapter. Regards, HaeB (talk) 06:48, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, HaeB. Tony (talk) 14:37, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Belated farewell...

Hi. I've had a lengthy period of absence from Wikipedia which left me with a backlog of Signposts to catch up on, which I've been working through these last couple of weeks. And so it is that I have only just learned of your departure from that esteemed organ. So, just wanted to say you will be missed and that I feel SP was bloomin' marvellous under your tenure. Good luck in your new role with the WMF, I'm sure you will thrive. --bodnotbod (talk) 06:18, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

So, how would I go about including this statement of his intent?--Appanouki (talk) 07:26, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks everybody!

Reviewing my talk page before archiving it at the end of the year, it occurs to me I never acknowledged all the nice words left here after started to work for the WMF. Thanks everybody for these kind words, they were very motivating, and as you may have seen I have still been contributing to the Signpost, and also documenting the community's achievements in my new capacity. Regards, HaeB (talk) 21:30, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Historian

The edit partial revert: "(professional) historian" would be POV too, cf. historian: "...and is regarded as an authority on it." doesn't make any sense. First, the article did not say "professional", but I think the fact that he is repeatedly paid to write books on history clearly makes him a professional, so it would be fine though unnecessary to include that. Second, he *IS* regarded as an authority on the topics in history he writes about - hence the continuing publishing contracts, the respect of his professional peers, and the multiple news sources calling him a historian. If you think otherwise, you need to prove it with some pretty strong reliable sources saying he *isn't* regarded as an authority, otherwise you are engaging in original research that ends up pushing a POV. DreamGuy (talk) 04:22, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

This kind of discussion frequently occurs on Wikipedia when extraordinary historical statements are sourced to non peer reviewed publications authored by writers who do not have academic qualifications as historians, as in this case. Selling lots of books does not mean that one is regarded as an authority, and you did not provide any evidence for "the respect of his professional peers". I notice that the article about Bondeson himself has, during its entire existence, not reflected your POV either.

The history of this article is a cautionary tale against writing articles based on sensationalist newspaper articles, not unlike this example (although to be fair this seems not entirely Bondeson's fault).

Regards, HaeB (talk) 21:30, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Article in the UBCMJ

http://www.ubcmj.com/pdf/ubcmj_3_1_2011_32-33.pdf Not sure if this is worthy for signpost. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:53, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

A belated thanks, I covered it briefly in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-09-19/In the news#In Brief following your tip. Regards, HaeB (talk) 21:30, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Signpost SOS

Just to let you know, Sko sent out an SOS saying that ITN and N&N alternates needed to be activated. You're an alternate for both, an old hand, and one of the few people on the list who has edited in the past 48 hours, so I figured I'd message you first. Sven Manguard Wha? 16:45, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Hey, how you been, just wanted to ask if you could check over my story on the German image filter issue in this week's N&N. Thanks and hope I didn't make too many errors ;-), ResMar 23:30, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Oh and link: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-10-31/News and notes. ResMar 23:30, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Free for a minute?

Hey, thanks for the help with ITN, much appreciated. Would you mind taking a quick look over my sections of ITN and the special report for any glaring errors? We are ready to publish otherwise... Skomorokh 11:27, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

I already skimmed over ITN (and just added another illustration) - it looks quite decent to me. But I'm afraid I have to leave now for about 2 hours (and won't have much more time after that), sorry. Good luck! Regards, HaeB (talk) 11:32, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Ah, thank you very much, I do appreciate it! Skomorokh 11:34, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

User talk:RBandH

Hi there you put a warning on the above regarding Royal Brompton Hospital. The editor is back with a vengeance. Perhaps you'd like to review? I'll watch this page if you want to contact me. Cheers. --Richhoncho (talk) 17:57, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

I didn't get to spend much time on this, but I agree that these edits are quite problematic. Regards, HaeB (talk) 21:30, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Help

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I am desperate. I really need help with my wiki. Can you help me please?

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J Assange

Hi - I have reverted back to before the large expansion of the claims about this persons ancestry. Many of the sources that the user has been adding are not reliable for wikipedia - I left the User:Ksrjm a note about my reversal and a link ot the talkpage discussion - the discussion is on the talkpage here, please join in if you feel to - thanks

• - Talk:Julian_Assange#Ancestry claims

- Youreallycan (talk) 20:15, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Good job - I would usually refrain from such a wholesale revert, but in this case it seemed justified, considering the previous insertion of such claims which were not supported by the cited sources (I didn't have the time to check these edits, but I did so with similar ones by quite likelly the same person, see here). Regards, HaeB (talk) 21:30, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Congress?

Are you at the congress this year? -EKaspersky (forgot my pass) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.84.76.43 (talk) 00:32, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Here migh be better proof 176.99.116.107 (talk) 22:06, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't make it to the congress this time - maybe next year! Regards, HaeB (talk) 21:30, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

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  • Annual Report published, for the first time with translations
  • Collaborative drafting process for Terms of Use update completed
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Bump good sir. You control the URL or know who does? ResMar 23:04, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Ping

I've emailed you. Tony (talk) 10:56, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

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open blog planet stopped

How is this update process run? Re: User talk:Nickj/open-wikiblogplanet-config.ini#Stopped_updating. 173.166.109.241 (talk) 00:00, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Good question - Nickj is probably in the best position to answer it. In the meantime, there is also http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/ . Regards, HaeB (talk) 00:45, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

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Interview with Signpost's former editors in chief

The WikiProject Report would like to interview the former editors in chief of the Signpost for an article in the Signpost. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new contributors to the newspaper. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 04:26, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Just dropping by with a friendly reminder to participate in the Signpost interview. We're one week away from publication and the other three editors have already posted their responses. I just wanted to make sure you got a chance to add your thoughts. -Mabeenot (talk) 04:21, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, it's definitely on my radar, I'm drafting my replies and will try get them in tomorrow - in any case, well before the weekend. Regards, HaeB (talk) 09:28, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights, March 2012

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for March 2012, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation Highlights:
  • MediaWiki development switching to distributed revision control
  • Arabic outreach tour encourages participation in Wikipedia
  • Design improvements for Wikipedia mobile
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights:
  • New Wikimedia project: Wikidata
  • Wikimedia Conference sees movement reforms
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  • Scientific journal publishes peer-reviewed articles on Wikipedia

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April 2012

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to You have two cows, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use your sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Hghyux (talk to me)(talk to others) 03:06, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Reply at User talk:Hghyux. Regards, HaeB (talk) 00:25, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at You have two cows. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Hghyux (talk to me)(talk to others) 00:42, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

An apology

Sorry about those stupid edits. I was not paying full attention to the article and blindly re-hit the button. You deserve an apology. I have stopped using Stiki until it has time to reset. Hghyux (talk to me)(talk to others) 01:07, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from April 2012

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for April 2012, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • Expanding fundraising and affiliation models
  • Indic language outreach
  • Mobile pageviews target reached
  • Towards a rapid software deployment cycle
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • "Wikipedian in Residence" model comes of age
  • Wikidata starts working on interwiki links
  • Multilanguage contest from Monmouthpedia project
  • Tamil media contest
  • Database company donates free access to Wikimedians

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Philip Lader

What is your interest in Philip Lader? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.12.187.97 (talk) 23:10, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

None in particular beyond a general desire to keep Wikipedia articles neutral and free of promotional language, according to the project's policies and guidelines.

And yours?

Regards, HaeB (talk) 06:04, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from May 2012

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for May 2012, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • New Wikimedia fellows working on dispute resolution and small language wikis
  • 1 million media files uploaded using Upload Wizard
  • Wikipedia Zero launches in Asia
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Two new chapter-selected Wikimedia Trustees
  • First demo of Wikidata
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Wikipedia Signpost

Hey HaeB, could you check this edit to make sure it is accurate? Thanks, Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 16:32, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Seems about right - consensus was achieved a bit earlier, but concrete steps to implement it were indeed taken in August, see e.g. here or here. Note that some or all of the page moves were reverted by someone in the following year. Regards, HaeB (talk) 05:52, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. Do you think it's worth it to move them back? I.e. is it worth the work involved to fix the templates, etc.? (I should be talking to Jarry about this...).

I ask mainly because I've been wondering why we repeat "Wikipedia" on the title page, especially when that's not our name anymore. ;-) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 01:05, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Signpost Interview on COI/Paid editing

Hi HaeB! I wanted to know if you'd be interested in being the 4th interviewee for the Signpost interview series I've been working on. I would supply you a list of about 20 questions on-wiki, and then you'd have 1-2 weeks to respond to them at your leisure. I would organize the questions for logical flow and trim some parts for succinctness but otherwise it would be entirely your words as you crafted them. As an experienced and thoughtful Wikipedian with serious concerns about paid editing, I'd really like to have your voice in the interview series. Let me know! Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 19:55, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from June 2012

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for June 2012, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • Advisory group discusses future funds dissemination structure
  • Second Visual Editor prototype launched
  • "Teahouse" pilot concludes with encouraging results
  • Hackers convene in Berlin
• Data and Trends
• Financials
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  • "Afripedia" brings offline Wikipedia into remote African areas
  • Second "Iberoconf" summit in Santiago de Chile
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COI+ certification proposal

I've thought of an idea that might break our current logjam with paid editing. I'd love your sincere feedback and opinion.

• WP:COI certification

Feel free to circulate this to anyone you think should know about it, but please recognize that it hasn't agreed upon by either PR organizations or WikiProjects or the wider community. It's also just a draft, so any/many changes can still be made. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 14:55, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

hi

please read this: Moseley's law "Moseley was able to show that the frequencies of certain characteristic X-rays emitted from chemical elements are proportional to the square of a number which was close to the element's atomic number; a finding which supported van den Broek and Bohr's model of the atom in which the atomic number is the same as the number of positive charges in the nucleus of the atom." waiting for the answer

i might be wrong or interpreted wrong but in the page "Moseley's law" also says Foundational quantum physics — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gdrg22 (talk • contribs) 04:27, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

You're explaining here why Moseley's work was important for Quantum Mechanics. However, your edit to the Quantum mechanics article claims that he was, together with others, reformulating quantum theory in the mid-1920s. This is definitely wrong, since he died long before the mid-20s. Apart from the date, I don't think that his contribution can be described as reformulating quantum theory, he contributed at an earlier stage, which is btw. emphasized by the inclusion of Moseley's law in Category:Foundational quantum physics. — HHHIPPO 15:59, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from July 2012

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for July 2012, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • Foundation staff report on their work at Wikimania
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Wikimania
  • Wikipedian in Residence for a whole town
  • Russian Wikipedia blackout

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APCO

Hi! I will comment on APCO's talk page in a moment with respect to One Malaysia/Israel. I would appreciate your comments and inputMonkeyassault (talk) 05:52, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks - see also my reply at User_talk:Monkeyassault#APCO_Worldwide_.2F_COI_editing. Regards, HaeB (talk) 08:25, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from August 2012

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for August 2012, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • Wiki Loves Monuments app enables the first mobile contributions to Wikimedia projects
  • Language support tools released in "Project Milkshake"
  • Request for Comment on legal fees assistance program
  • Pilot project on Arabic Wikipedia increases contributions by new editors
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Donation of African art images
  • Catalan librarians receive Wikipedia training
  • Annual German-language conference

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Heather Marsh

Thank you very much for your help with citations :)

Pardon any total n00b errors if this is not supposed to be where I talk?

Understood all further citations required except the Canadian Defence League one ... that was the right url, just needed scrolling down to Sep 1 ... how do I link that? Appreciate all your help. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Canadian-Defence-League/196328817044491?fref=ts — Preceding unsigned comment added by Corruptedcryptonerd (talk • contribs) 08:47, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Also ... I thought there was masses of secondary sources? What else for notability is required? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Corruptedcryptonerd (talk • contribs) 08:51, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Replied at User talk:Corruptedcryptonerd. Regards, HaeB (talk) 09:26, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi, sorry, I responded to you as below on my chat where your answer was but not sure if you got it there:

Hi, about your questions:

• It's usually best to discuss article-related question on the talk page of the article itself (Talk:Heather Marsh), so that other users who are interested in the article can chip in as well, or look the discussion up later. I already left a comment there earlier.
• Weblinks in citations should point to a page where one can find the corresponding information directly, without further clicking. Facebook offers a permalink for each particular update (can be found near the top of the message, e.g. "September 1"), I guess you may have meant this one? Be aware though that it would still be considered a primary source, which are not always suitable (see WP:PRIMARY), and people may question whether this Facebook message consisted a sufficiently important event in her life to be mentioned in her biography.
• Regarding secondary sources and notability, see my comment on the article talk page. WP:GNG has some explanations about when secondary sources can help to establish notability ("'Significant coverage' means that sources address the subject directly in detail ..."). Most useful would be independent sources with information about her as a person, rather than about WikiLeaks Central or Global Square (such sources might be more useful in an article about WikiLeaks Central or Global Square, respectively).

Also, if you don't mind me asking, are you in any way personally connected or affiliated with Heather Marsh? If that should be the case, have a look at the advice on this page.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 09:24, 8 October 2012 (UT

Hi and thanks :)

Ok.

Facebook - ok, that was the most permanent link I could find to stuff that was more followed up on Twitter and outside ... include or no? It was this one, not the one you found: http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=222565861205573&id=196328817044491

Hmm. not sure I understand given that she was the key person in Wikileaks Central, Global Square, Occupy etc ... compared to for instance these she must be more notable? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Noel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadim_Kobeissi and many others who have wikipedia pages just for participating in orgs she created? As a person ... not sure how personal = notable ... plus is a privacy advocate and wikileaks so not much personal out there, just many orgs involved with.

I am trying to fill out the bios that need to be linked to CryptoParty but could probably reach her on twitter. Will ask around for better links whereever you say tomorrow. (This is one linked to cryptoparty I used as a model - if this is notable then? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinn_norton)

Re political theory stuff, she was at the Berlin Biennale talking about that for two months this year and there is a lot of reference on Occupy-ish places, and some random radio audios but not sure that any would be considered link worthy: http://www.google.ca/search?aq=f&ix=seb&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=berlin+biennale#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=berlin+biennale+heather+marsh&oq=berlin+biennale+heather+marsh&gs_l=serp.3..33i38.14220.18437.0.19656.18.17.1.0.0.1.289.1946.6j9j2.17.0.les%3Bcesh..1.0...1.1.kbo6R8RhHSU&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=9c11953bcbc45462&biw=1328&bih=645&ix=seb Global Square is still very active in Github and irc.

Thanks very much again, I appreciate all your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Corruptedcryptonerd (talk • contribs) 18:35, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Waiting to hear back, but here are a couple of the prior links I posted http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/building-on-wikileaks-20111028-1mo38.html http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/pods/pods_20120221-0400a.mp3 (at 6.30) ... would these be considered about her vs the projects? I have been looking at several other wikipedia profiles like the ones I mentioned above and am not understanding your points about "information about her as a person" ... most of the profiles I have seen seem to deeply discourage that as 'trivial' so I think I am not understanding you.

I volunteered to create Wikipedia articles for a couple of the speakers we considered notable enough to give messages of support to international cryptoparty events (I just picked this one actually) and am trying to get it in clean enough form that it will be up and your boxes of concern removed then I probably won't be back since I don't usually edit wikipedia ... so any help you can give me getting this up to standard before I leave would be greatly appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Corruptedcryptonerd (talk • contribs) 03:08, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Replied at User talk:Corruptedcryptonerd. Regards, HaeB (talk) 05:57, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

So these articles (Sydney Morning Herald and BBC that I posted in the other chat) are not ok? They are pretty about her I think? http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/building-on-wikileaks-20111028-1mo38.html http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/pods/pods_20120221-0400a.mp3 (at 6.30) Or the CryptoParty international message? http://soundcloud.com/cryptoparty

Sorry, not trying to be lazy but not a Wikipedia editor either and would like to tick a box that says I created an article that has no warning boxes on top :-D Would these two work? I have found some radio stuff of various quality too, and the Berlin Biennale must have stuff about her besides in Occupy-ish places but in other languages. What do I need to get this article to a no-warning-boxes state?

I am pretty certain she is of note, since she was asked to do an international message of support, but what is needed to prove? I can't find stuff like age, but she was the founder of some major groups and many of them so I think more important than Wikileaks Central (since she is also Global Square, first known mention of Occupy, prominent early person in day of rages, Hope Riders, anon etc). I looked to do a Wikileaks Central article, but since most well known media don't directly quote them as a source that would be harder (even when they do quote them they say Wikileaks not Wikileaks Central). And it would leave out all the rest.

Sorry to bug, but Sydney Morning Herald for Wikileaks Central and Occupy, BBC for Global Square and political philosophy to technology, plus CryptoParty ... if I got a Berlin Biennale reference too would this work? Does that have to be der Speigel or would a random radio or blog do?

Regarding Quinn Norton ... there is an age but no reference, so I could make one up ... actually that is true for all of these? or Pedro Noel ... all of those seem to be orgs affiliated with him being a wl central writer ... Nadim Kobeissi 'early supporter' of orgs as opposed to created, references his own tweets and blogs ... Moxie Marlinspike pseudonym, no name much less birthdate etc etc Smári McCarthy also no personal, references his tweet stream etc. Jillian York references own work and good reads profile?! Christopher Soghoian Incredibly little of this is referenced. Dan Kaminsky no personal information, zip. Matthew Green absolutely no references, no personal, one paragraph. Dima Khatib one of many many journalists self referencing all the way. And on and on, not to beat this drum but because ... I thought I did much better :(

So I understand wikipedia is a work in progress but having trouble understanding the 'personal coverage' part in context. I have interviews with her and articles about her, both in major outlets? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Corruptedcryptonerd (talk • contribs) 08:46, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

No idea if you would consider a public 'book in progress' by a published author with a chapter on her writings an acceptable source ... http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpress.com/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Corruptedcryptonerd (talk • contribs) 18:39, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from September 2012

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for September 2012, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • "Page Curation" tools make it easier to review new Wikipedia articles
  • New volunteer-based model for distributing donation money launched
  • New travel project site, and legal activities
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Worldwide Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest with record participation
  • Conflict of interest discussions
  • First EduWiki Conference

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Wikimedia Highlights from October 2012

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for October 2012, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation Highlights
  • Mobile Wikipedia redesigned
  • First in-person meeting of the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
  • Wikipedia Zero now available to 230 million people after Saudi Arabia launch; has already grown Wikipedia readership in Africa and Asia
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Audio and video from open access scientific publications imported to Commons
  • 200 GLAM professionals at German conference
  • Ada Lovelace Day
  • Wikidata.org goes online

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Wikimedia Highlights from November 2012

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for November 2012, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • New HTML5 video player
  • Developer meetup and language summit in India
  • Fundraiser launch
  • Beta launch of Wikivoyage
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • "Day of the Dead" photo contest
  • Bot connects 250,000 biographies to bibliographical records
  • "Semanticpedia" collaboration with French government and research institute
  • A simultaneous editathon from two continents

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'Tis that season again...

	Happy Holidays!
	Hope you and your family are enjoying the holiday season, Tilman! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:14, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, to you too! Regards, HaeB (talk) 08:47, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from December 2012

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for December 2012, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • Visual Editor opt-in launch on English Wikipedia
  • Record donations in shortest ever fundraiser
  • First round of the new funds dissemination process ends
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Israeli and Czech chapters convince governments to make images freely available
  • More than half a million free photos of Dutch monuments for Wikimedia Commons
  • Workshop of the German Volunteer response team

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Wikimedia Highlights from January 2013

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for January 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

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• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • New program offers financial support for projects by individual Wikimedians
  • Successful migration to new data center
  • New partnership grows the reach of Wikipedia Zero to 330 million mobile users
  • Wikivoyage becomes newest Wikimedia project
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Asteroid named after Wikipedia
  • EU-funded RENDER project releases editor support tools
  • Wiki Loves Monuments exhibition in Polish railway station
  • Review of management and conflict of interest issues at Wikimedia UK

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Wikimedia Highlights from February 2013

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for February 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • Legal victory for Wikivoyage and free knowledge
  • Mobile watchlist available
  • Language Engineering team attends open source conferences in India
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Commons Picture of the Year 2012 contest results announced
  • New ombudsman commission
  • Open database of public art in Sweden

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Thanks

Thank you very much! I don't know so much english, so I contribute at spanish wikipedia. However I can remove small mistakes in articles. Best regards. --Shalbat (talk) 13:04, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from March 2013

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for March 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• • Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • Lua speeds up pages and empowers Wikimedia's technical contributors
  • Mobile uploads launch for apps and the mobile web
  • First Individual Engagement Grants awarded to innovative community projects
  • Wikipedia Zero wins award, reaches new users
  • Ombudsmen meet, might expand mandate
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Phase 2 of Wikidata is becoming available on Wikipedia
  • Evaluating the success of the "Mediagrant" project to document nature reserves
  • WikiAfrica offers physical space for Wikimedia contributions in Cameroon

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Wikimedia Highlights from April 2013

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for April 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • New notifications system launches on the English Wikipedia
  • Wikidata's content can now be used on all Wikipedias
  • Wikimedia Commons app announced for iOS and Android
  • Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) publishes its recommendations about $1.2 million
  • New conflict of interest guidelines
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Chapters conference and GLAM-Wiki events
  • Students create the first online Arabic-Serbian dictionary
  • "Wiki Loves Sound" enriches Wikipedia with audio recordings

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Wikimedia Highlights from May 2013

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for May 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • Community invited to discuss trademark practices
  • Wikipedia Zero launches in Pakistan
  • Search for new Executive Director begins
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • More than 11,000 nature photos in Ukrainian "Wiki loves Earth" contest
  • Hackathons in Amsterdam and Tel Aviv
  • Railway photo expedition in Poland
  • Online course about editing Wikipedia articles

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A cupcake for you!

Hi, HaeB! Thank you for your heart. Niazza (talk) 11:06, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Harryboyles, thanks for taking care of that situation and explaining the relevant aspects of WP:NFCC to the user! Regards, HaeB (talk) 07:13, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from June 2013

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for June 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • First workshop on how to evaluate the success of organized Wikimedia activities
  • Preparations for the launch of VisualEditor and Universal Language Selector
  • Community input invited for privacy policy update
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Election results for Board and FDC
  • "Flow Funding" supports aerial photographs of Hamburg from a hot air balloon
  • Art and design students illustrate Wikipedia
  • Offline Wikipedia for prisoners

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Stats

Hi, any chance you could give an opinion here? Thx Tony (talk) 12:54, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Please re-review the PhET interactive simulations article

There has been quite a bit of work done on the PhET Interactive Simulations article that you flagged in June and I wonder if you would take time to look at it. Perhaps you will see if the flags could be removed or if you have ideas that would help the article and add to the Talk:PhET Interactive Simulations#Problems due to_ conflict of interest editing section. thanks, Patricia.Loeblein (talk) 00:25, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from July 2013

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for July 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • Mobile editing
  • Wikipedia Zero comes to India
  • VisualEditor beta launch
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Winners of "Wiki Loves Public Art" announced
  • New Board of Trustees member: Ana Toni
  • Buenos Aires edit-a-thon in former military prison

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September 2013

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Wikimedia Highlights from September 2013

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for September 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • 22 proposals for Individual Engagement Grants submitted
  • FDC receives 11 proposals for annual plan grants, looks back on first year of operation
  • Community consultation about new privacy policy begins
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Wiki Loves Monuments 2013
  • Indian Wikimedians and German university collaborate to digitize works of 19th century scholar
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• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • Pilot project for free mobile access to Wikipedia via text messages in Kenya
  • Video about South African students' grassroot efforts to get Wikipedia free on their cellphones
  • Planning the replacement of the Florida data center
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other highlights from the Wikimedia movement
  • Science award for bot that imports multimedia from academic publications to Wikimedia Commons
  • New project encourages African communities to contribute local content to Wikimedia projects
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Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for November 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
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  • Open Source Language Summit in Pune, India
  • OAuth extension makes it easier to use third-party editing tools
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other highlights from the Wikimedia movement
  • Tenth anniversary of Wikisource
  • Indian university releases encyclopedia under a free license
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Your edit in "The Marketing of Madness" unwarranted

I understand that the relationship between Scientology and Wikipedia over the years has not been the best of relationships. For the record, I am not a a Scientologist and I do not endorse Scientology. However, this acrimony between you two should not be an obstacle for having an accurate description of matters. The fact is that a lot has happened in 2013 in the field of psychiatry that has made the editing to the "Marketing of Madness" necessary,

- Tom Insel, director of the US National Institute of Mental Health, 2013, says that DSM labels lack scientific validity: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-diagnosis.shtml

- David Kupfer, chairman of the DSM-5 task force, replying back says that indeed, there are no biomarkers for any the DSM disorders: http://www.psych.org/File%20Library/Advocacy%20and%20Newsroom/Press%20Releases/2013%20Releases/13-33-Statement-from-DSM-Chair-David-Kupfer--MD.pdf

- Allen Frances, chairman of the DSM-IV task force, 2013, publishes a book criticizing the medicalization of ordinary life in DSM-5 http://www.amazon.com/Saving-Normal-Out-Control-Medicalization/dp/0062229257

- The Division of Clinical Psychology of the British Psychological Society, 2013, bashes psychiatry, as promoted by medical societies worldwide, http://dcp.bps.org.uk/dcp/the_dcp/news/dcp-position-statement-on-classification.cfm

The whole point of the "The Marketing of Madness" was to precisely denounce that while psychiatry was telling one thing to patients, the facts of psychiatric practice told a very different story. The documentary is from 2010 and yet it foretold events that happened in 2012 (the GSK fine) and 2013 (the public falling out between the APA and the NIMH resulting in both acknowledging criticism to psychiatry that only recently they had labelled as anti psychiatry talking points).

The best advice I can give you is that you watch your documentary yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgCpa1RlSdQ . Unlike other CCHR/Scientology productions this one is measured and is painstakingly well documented.

When I first watched it last year I went through the pain of independently verifying, through Wikipedia and other sources, all the claims made there about the lack of scientific validity of psychiatric labels and the conflicts of interests it denounced. As I said, the controversy surrounding the Paxil Study 329 resulted in GSK paying hundreds of millions of dollars, part of the 3 billion dollar settlement, to settle criminal and civil charges with the DOJ on the matter.

The current content of the page presents as facts things like the validity of mental illness when in fact both the APA and the NIMH now recognize that no psychiatric label has been shown to have biological validity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Psychsurvivor (talk • contribs) 08:13, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

A Tesla Roadster for you!

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Need Someone to Read My Article

Hi. It seems like I received a notification that you liked my recent additions/edits to the Barbary Coast, San Francisco article. I just finished creating a new article on a related subject called Terrific Street, which involves the early days of jazz in San Francisco. I need to have someone read it, so that they can remove the un-reviewed tag at the top of the article. Do you think that you could give it a read and remove the tag? Thanx.James Carroll (talk) 17:35, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from December 2013

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for December 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • New brochure explains how to edit Wikipedia
  • "Drafts" feature provides a gentler start for Wikipedia articles
  • Recipients of Annual Plan Grants (FDC) and Individual Engagements Grants (IEG) announced
  • Successful year-end online fundraising campaign
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other highlights from the Wikimedia movement
  • Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 winners announced
  • New tool for GLAM mass uploads to Wikimedia Commons

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• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • New community-centered trademark policy
  • After one year, Individual Engagement Grants demonstrate potential for impact
  • Multimedia vision for 2016, and request for comment on MP4 video
  • New search engine
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other highlights from the Wikimedia movement
  • Project to record voices of Wikipedia subject gains support from Stephen Fry and the BBC
  • Ukrainian chapter and Wikipedia community protest laws proposed by Ukrainian government

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Coat of arms map

If you think, the Coat of arms map is an interesting use-case for Wikidata. It would be nice if you could write a little article in the Signpost. More infos in the Kurier. --Kolossos (talk) 17:17, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Reply here. Regards, HaeB (talk) 03:32, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from February 2014

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for February 2014, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • Frank Schulenburg named executive director of the new Wiki Education Foundation, which supports Wikipedia courses in the US and Canada
  • New Media Viewer: A better way to view images
  • Discussion about disclosure requirements for paid editing, and about the new privacy policy
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other highlights from the Wikimedia movement
  • Wikimedians visit European Parliament to take photos of politicians
  • New video intends to motivate GLAM organizations to open up their collections
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Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for March 2014, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • New Beta feature: Hovercards show article previews
  • Typography refresh: A new look for text on Wikimedia sites
  • Draft annual plan published for feedback from the community and the FDC
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other highlights from the Wikimedia movement
  • Picture of the Year 2013
  • Wikimedia Russia achieves changes to Russian copyright laws

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Wikimedia Highlights from April 2014

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for April 2014, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • Wikimedia Labs migrated to the new data center
  • New MediaViewer starts getting released on Wikimedia sites
  • New Executive Director and Chief Communications Officer
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other highlights from the Wikimedia movement
  • Annual Wikimedia Conference joins Wikimedia organizations in Berlin
  • Wikimedians remember Adrianne Wadewitz and Cynthia Ashley-Nelson
  • Wiki Education Foundation receives $1.39 million grant

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Wikimedia Highlights from May 2014

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for May 2014, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • 12 new individual engagement grants
  • Inviting anonymous editors to join the Wikipedia community
  • Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) recommendations announced
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other highlights from the Wikimedia movement
  • Annual Wikimedia Hackathon in Zürich, Switzerland
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Thanks, Gilliam! Regards, HaeB (talk) 09:03, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from January 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in January 2015, covering selected activities of the Wikimedia Foundation and other important events from the Wikimedia movement.

• Wikipedia turns 14, receives prestigious Erasmus Prize 2015
• Civility, Wikipedia, and the conversation on Gamergate
• How high school student Jack Andraka used Wikipedia to research a new test for cancer
• Wellcome Library donates 100,000 medical images to Wikimedia Commons
• Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in the Czech Republic
• Try Content Translation: A quick way to create new articles from other languages
• Weekly edit-a-thons help create new articles about women and literature in Sweden

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On migration

I come back to the Signpost and almost the first thing I do in the first article I write is plug a big picture of you front and center into the draft. I swear it's not idolatry—I just can't think of anything better at the moment! Congratulations on migrating from behind behind the print to in front of it, I guess. The reason I'm using your headshot as the graphic and not anything out the report is that (A) half of the story is the internal change in format; and (B) I feel that there isn't a good and obvious image to summarize the contents. If you object to this treatment (I'm kind of meh about the image anyway) or, more importantly, have a better image that can be used as the lead there, let me know. ResMar 06:18, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Oh, and another thing, do you know who has the keys to the FishBot and to the information display in the IRC channel? We'd like to make tweaks to both. ResMar 13:42, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Res,

I'm flattered ;) but yeah, I'm not sure that photo is the best possible illustration for the topic. How about using some of the illustrations from the report itself or (since it's about the work of the entire organization) a WMF staff group photo?

I don't know who operates FishBot. I just set the topic of the #wikisignpost IRC channel to be editable - I launched the channel back in 2010 and still have the Founder flag, but am happy to have others operate it; thanks for resuscitating it in any case ;)

Regards, HaeB (talk) 16:26, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

I would use File:Wikimedia Foundation Quarterly Report, FY 2014-15 Q2 (October-December).pdf but it's too plain a cover page to serve as a visual in a lead story. ResMar 16:28, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

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• Love on the Wikis
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• What is Wikipedia Zero? (VIDEO)
• Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation
• Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps
• Wiki Loves Africa photo contest announces winning pictures

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Hello.

I was directed here by Resident Mario in regards to my writing of an opinion piece on whether modern Wikipedians understand foundation values.

"Mostly in reference to the five pillars.

I think that it is imperative that we have an op-ed (at least) that covers whether the Wikipedians of today agree with the same principles of the early Wikipedians, or if there has been a shift in outlook since 2001 within the minds of Wikipedians."

He said that you could probably point me to some studies that may help me in writing this piece.

Might you be able to do that? Tharthandorf Aquanashi (talk) 16:42, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from March 2015

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• Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA to challenge upstream mass surveillance
• Womens History Month
• Growing free knowledge through open data
• Raspberry Pi in Masekelo: Bringing Wikipedia to a school without electricity
• Wikimedia Foundation adopts Open Access Policy to support free knowledge
• Welcome new members of Wikimedia Foundation

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Weinberg's new book

TLS review you might be interested in. I note you're in the page history of the bio-article on him. Tony (talk) 10:13, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

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• New features on Wikipedia iOS app help readers access, explore, and share knowledge
• Wiki Learning holds massive edit-a-thon at Tec de Monterrey in Mexico City
• The first Wikipedia TV spots and awareness campaign in Cameroon (VIDEO)
• Celebrity photographer Allan Warren shares the big shots on Wikipedia
• Introducing the new Wikipedia store
• A Wikimedian asks European Parliament members for copyright reform
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Aaron Peskin Wikipedia Page

Hello, I was told that you would be the person to get into contact with about cleaning up, and revising some of the content on the Aaron Peskin Wikipedia page.

There are a few things on the page I would like to touch up, but the most noticeable error is in the first paragraph under the 'Controversies' section. The references used lead either to dead webpages, or to a page with dead links.

Can this be removed due to the lack of a verifiable source? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.59.234.124 (talk) 20:37, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi, it appears that another editor already addressed the issue. I'm curious though who told you that I would be "the person" for this? (I haven't authored or edited that section.) Also, just in case it happens to apply to your situation, take a look at this page. Regards, HaeB (talk) 16:30, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from May 2015

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• Meet the Inspire grantees working to increase gender diversity on Wikimedia
• A dark side of comedy: John Oliver asks TV viewers to vandalize Wikipedia articles on U.S. politicians
• Fundraising made in Germany: lessons learned by Wikimedia Deutschland
• Editing the Uzbek Wikipedia: Kamarniso Vrandečić
• First ever WikiArabia conference gathers Wikipedians in Tunisia to connect and share experiences
• Wikimania and the differences between online and offline cultures

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Wikimedia Highlights from June 2015

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• These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution
• Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS
• 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia
• Record featured article author recommends five Wikipedia articles
• How English Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition
• Preserving Wikipedia citations for the future: Geoffrey Bilder

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Wikimedia Highlights from July 2015

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• Konkani Wikipedia goes live
• “Becoming involved in making the changes you want to see”: Leigh Thelmadatter
• Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you
• Wikimedians urge the EU to protect freedom of panorama
• ACLU files amended complaint on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation
• Get the latest Wikipedia updates easily with IFTTT

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Wikimedia Highlights from August 2015

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• Hundreds of “black hat” English Wikipedia accounts blocked following investigation
• The Hunt for Tirpitz
• My life as an autistic Wikipedian
• Content Translation updates from Wikimania 2015
• Using Wikipedia to preserve indigenous languages of Colombia
• When cultural heritage gets a digital life

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Cheers!

Close para/copy vio was one of main reasons the article failed its first GA-review. Everything suspected of such should be nicely reworded now, so thanks. :) Jonas Vinther • (Click here to collect your price!) 22:19, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from August 2015

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• Hundreds of “black hat” English Wikipedia accounts blocked following investigation
• The Hunt for Tirpitz
• My life as an autistic Wikipedian
• Content Translation updates from Wikimania 2015
• Using Wikipedia to preserve indigenous languages of Colombia
• When cultural heritage gets a digital life

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Looks like an IP-skipper.

The sheer number of edits can't be a coincidence. HalfShadow 07:53, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

This kind of thing can also be the result of an article being mentioned on TV or in a high-traffic online venue. Regards, HaeB (talk) 07:54, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from September 2015

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• Drone photography of Versailles
• Wikimedia project milestones: Swedish Wikipedia hits 2 million
• What I Learned: Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina
• In September, we love monuments
• Reimagining the Wikimedia Foundation’s grants
• Wikipedia’s very active editor numbers have stabilized—delve into the data with us
• Should I pay for a Wikipedia article?

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Ethnic groups in Malaysia template

Hello HaeB, I believe you don't work with editing any Wikipedia pages to do with Malaysia, but you're only one of two users I could think of at the moment that works to make sure Wikipedia is used properly. I have asked users (on their talk pages) Muffin Wizard and Alexander Iskandar why they changed the Ethnic groups in Malaysia template, Muffin Wizard replied and fixed the template to an extent but I believe this is not fair. Alexander Iskandar changed the design completely without any discussion on the template's talk page. A template is only supposed to be used a a guide but it appears to be informing the reader who in Malaysia is considered "Bumiputera Malaysian" and who is considered "non-Bumiputera Malaysian". The previous version of the template worked fine without politicising it. All it did was address the ethnic groups in the country. (124.180.199.116 (talk) 10:59, 22 October 2015 (UTC))

Thanks 24.180.199.116, that's a nice compliment! (I'm sure though there are many, many more users working to ensure that Wikipedia is edited properly.) I see that the matter is already being addressed thanks to I dream of horses and Muffin Wizard. Regards, HaeB (talk) 06:15, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

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OK, will try to do that next time! Regards, HaeB (talk) 06:37, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from October 2015

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• Wikipedia’s global impact recognized with Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award ceremony
• Creating change one step at a time: Miguel Zuñiga Gonzalez
• Your October milestones include Wikidata’s 15 millionth item
• District court grants government’s motion to dismiss Wikimedia v. NSA, appeal expected
• Making Chinese Wikipedia more ethnologically diverse

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Revert Saks Fifth Avenue

I don't know what you are talking about. The reuters quote is a complete fabrication and can be found no where within the reference. The figures you re-added lacks information supplied by the sources. There may be a corresponding quote but the relevance of it to the text is not sufficient. They can also be removed per WP:OR. The text needs sources to support the figures. 172.100.212.147 (talk) 23:36, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

As mentioned here, your claims e.g. about the Reuters quote are plainly false. See also [22] and Talk:Saks_Fifth_Avenue#Edit_warring_by_User:Rockhound57. I have restored it. Regards, HaeB (talk) 10:10, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Highlights from December 2015

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• Wikipedia celebrates 15 years of free knowledge
• Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske
• Making our pageview data easily accessible
• In brief

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• Content Translation tool has now been used for 50,000 articles
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A barnstar for you!

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	Thank you for your feedback on the Khmilnyk page. I will work on researching sources for famous people connected with the town and adding them.Some of the sources are other wiki pages but I don't think they count. I hope we can leave the names in there while I research sources. I am a bit slow to make additions. Sorry.Neverbeengone (talk) 20:45, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Allison Hargis

Thank you for your input regarding my Wikipedia submissions.

NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) is a non-profit organization that has an archive of Oral History interviews similar to the Library of Congress or Smithsonian. We have no relationship with the persons interviewed except to honor their contributions to the music products industry.

Our organization’s events are not open to the public, nor can we offer membership to the general public. Our sole purpose in connecting these interviews with Wikipedia is to highlight aspects of individual careers that may or may not be part of their existing article, and to promote their contributions to the music products industry.

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It is not our intent to make the interviews more important than anything else in the article, we just thought that was how to link an external interview. We welcome suggestions to better incorporate and not violate Wikipedia policy, but we do feel the interviews are an important addition to the articles, as being interviewed for the NAMM Oral History program is like a recognition award, and is therefore important to be mentioned. I look forward to your feedback. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Allisonhargis (talk • contribs) 18:00, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

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Hello. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —the one you made with this edit to God emperor - because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.20.236.158 (talk) 09:32, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Please cite sources justifying the inclusion of Donald Trump in that list. Regards, HaeB (talk) 16:41, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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Greetings, Want to thank you for correcting the 14:10, 2 June 2016‎ Moredecai edits introduced on this page. I'm still not very good at the Undo process & so I just corrected the Schedule wikitable portion. Cheers! — JoeHebda • (talk) 14:18, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

FYI, user Moredecai reposted disruptive edits at the WikiProject Desk with this edit:

15:25, 3 June 2016‎ Moredecai (talk | contribs)‎ . . (20,528 bytes) (+6,626)‎

and

15:31, 3 June 2016‎ Moredecai (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (20,542 bytes) (+14)‎ 

I did post a new section at Moredecai talk page; and suggested asking for help at the Teahouse.

Also, the Moredecai User page appears to be a copy-paste of the Signpost WikiProject desk page. I've been editing since spring of 2014 & this kind of user page content appears to be wrong. So as not to "bite the new user" I have not addressed that issue yet.

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Hi, just confirming -- I believe you'll be contributing a Research Report to our upcoming edition of the Signpost. True? -Pete (talk) 02:35, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

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Your response to the speedy deletion request that I had was excellent. Is there a way to group all those templates together? Even though each one is accurate, it is distracting. I'll move on. I admire your handling of this.

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@Barbara (WVS): Yes, see Template:Multiple issues - but I think/hope there's a bot which can do that. Regards, HaeB (talk) 10:59, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

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Hi HaeB. I think page protection may be called for soon. The vandalism by Virgin Media IPs and socks is getting a bit predictable. What do you think? Martinevans123 (talk) 22:01, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

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I have not made any changes to Anna Leopoldovna which require a citation. Indeed, I have not added any new material at all, but only emphasises the number of years they spent in prison. This info is already there in the text, but people reading it may not have realized that nearly forty years were spent in prison. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.63.7.120 (talk) 14:34, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

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Recent Research (Signpost)

Hi there.

Thanks for your editorial smarts on my minor contribution! :) Would you mind organizing the byline by weight of contributions? I really don't feel that I should be listed first. That article on page protection (DePP) is really interesting. I haven't had time to look at much else. I will try to help out in future, now that I see the ether-pad list of articles to review.

Best wishes, 🌿 SashiRolls ^{t · c} 08:41, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

@SashiRolls: Thank you for the writeup of the English/Chinese matching paper! I usually tend to order the bylines by temporal order of contributions (who edits first comes first ;) but that's fine too, I have changed it. Looking forward to your next contributions. As you have seen, I post the Etherpad link on the newsroom page once it is ready, but Masssly and I also send it out as an email to the Wikiresearch-l mailing list and to a number of interested people who have contributed before - if you want, we can add you to that too (just send me a wikimail with your address).

Regards, HaeB (talk) 12:09, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

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Hey can message me need info on Wikipedia ShoppiDon (talk) 03:12, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Hi ShoppiDon, you may want to ask your question at the Teahouse. If it is about a matter that has to remain private, see Wikipedia:Contact us - but answers may take longer there. Regards, HaeB (talk) 03:20, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

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August 2019

Hi HaeB (talk), thanks for taking a look. As you can see in the diff, this content was removed as part of a wider effort to make the page more readable, organized, and objective. The quote in question "In 2019 the project has been criticized for being "still not usable for websites" in spite of attracting huge investments and creating an "overextended, under-documented, and unfinished constellation of projects"" is from an unreliable source (the author's personal blog), and gives undue weight to a single perspective that is not representative of a majority or large minority opinion (as demonstrated in a basic google search). In addition, the content itself has a biased tone and implies that one individual's experience is a factual assessment of the project's current state. Sorry for not sufficiently documenting that rhetoric in my change description. Are you onboard with me adding this justification and removing this content again?

Thanks for your help! Nala28 (talk) 16:28, 28 August 2019 (UTC) - crossposting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nala28#August_2019

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Neutral

When I read the article,I think it is very negative.When I looked through the information,I found that the first person who wrote it also deleted his daughter biography

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RJFF/Thita_Manitkul

The ban and the scandal were political lies that why its was not on his Thai Wikipedia.

Rangsitpol was Senator in 1987 "Senator" (PDF). Royal Thai Government Gazette. 104 (74): 4. 19 April 1987.,National Legislative Assembly in 1991 and Senator Thai Senate in 1992.

He was senator in 1987.I hope you will be ok with it.180.183.110.84 (talk) 10:48, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

Please respect the notice on top of this talk page and keep content discussions on the article talk page, where other editors can join in too. In any case I had not expressed any opinions about that part of the article - rather, I was calling out problems with other parts [24] [25], which it seems you are choosing to disregard.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 06:45, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

I was banned for 7 days and the case was close .The ban that was never enforced and the computer case that that subject was never trail.He also want the deformation case.

The millions baths was a rumor the subject would have been minister of transportation if that were true.

There were three millions Thai Students that went to schools that was found during his administration.

1)Most of Community College in Thailand was founded during his administration. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Announcement_of_the_Ministry_of_Education_dated_18_June_1997

2)He was Minister of Education since 1995 .He has been promoted his Education for All policy since 1995.

180 days diary November 1996-May 1997 https://books.google.co.th/books/about/180_%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99_%E0%B9%83%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%A7.html?id=aL3KoAEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

The final step to put the following number of students in Schools There were not enough schools for 700000 children between the ages of 3 and 5 years (Early Childhood Education)

There were not enough Primary Schools for 50000children between age 6and11years old .

There were not enough Secondary Schools for 1 millions children aged between 12 and 14 years

There were not enough High Schools for more than 2 millions children between aged 15 and 17

The result of Baby Boom for more than 30 years in Thailand. www.moe.co.th.

3 The newly appointed Duputy Minister was promoting his idea using the minister Email.

https://books.google.co.th/books?id=AzTlckizNtcC&pg=PP50&lpg=PP50&dq=sukavich+rangsitpol&source=bl&ots=wnxnpz4d1V&sig=ACfU3U2zuwiB_z08QGaXqzOEdMMDPNk3pw&hl=th&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiNp8_cgYvlAhVHH48KHaGWCfc4HhDoATAGegQIBxAB#v=onepage&q=sukavich%20rangsitpol&f=false

The ban have never been approved ,The books say that the writer did not know what happened after the email .

http://www.qrd.org/qrd/education/1997/misc.news.and.resources-04.21.97

In a recent positive development, the Commission on Justice and Human Rights of the Thai Parliament has discussed the matter and decided that the ban goes against human rights principles.

It has never been approved and the minister was doing his Education Reform to founded Schools for Millions of Thai Students .The Number could be founded in UNESCO and World Bank Recorded.

4)LGBTS https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1680244/thailand-still-lags-in-lgbt-issues

If there was the ban it would have been in the article.

5)The subject goal of Education Reform

Sukavich Rangsitpol]], launched a series of education reforms in 1995 ,goal of the education reform is to realize the potential of Thai people to develop themselves for a better quality of life and to develop the nation for a peaceful co-existence in the global community.

Dachakupt, Pimpan (1999). "The current innovation in curriculum development in Thailand". International Journal of Curriculum Development and Practice. 1: 93–101. Retrieved 8 October 2019. 180.183.43.254 (talk) 02:26, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

References

As mentioned before, it would be great if you could respect the notice on top of this talk page and keep content discussions on the corresponding article talk pages, where other editors can join in too. Also please try to keep comments on-topic (i.e. the actual article contents) and avoid repeating yourself over and over again. Regards, HaeB (talk) 08:30, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

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Calgary Puck

Thanks - missed that! Pretty unpleasant stuff. GirthSummit _(blether) 07:50, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

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Wikipedia quality vs edit frequency

Hi Tilman,

I'm sure I read research a year or two back that more-edited articles have higher quality by some metric, and that less-edited articles are lower quality or less NPOV. I can't find the reference I'm thinking of. Do you happen to have an idea on it? (I'm 85% sure I didn't imagine it). Thanks in advance for any assistance! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 01:32, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

Air Deccan

Hello there. Just wanted to tell you that the edits you removed here were actually blatant vandalism. — LeoFrank  ^Talk 17:07, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

@LeoFrank: Thanks for letting me know! In fact I did consider that likely, but wanted to leave room for the small possibility that it was a good faith edit. Regards, HaeB (talk) 09:31, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

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Mary Shane

Hers the link for the Piersall quote. https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/6d1d92c8#footnote22_axguezn Bonifacemundane69 (talk) 02:32, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Also, references to her impact are a matter of public record. Bonifacemundane69 (talk) 02:33, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

How do I follow up? The retraction was swift. Yet the new evidence seems to be slowly applied. Bonifacemundane69 (talk) 02:43, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

@Bonifacemundane69: Thanks for providing the source! I have re-added the quote for you with that citation. Usually editors are expected to do that themselves when adding or restoring such content. Here is some advice on how to do that: Help:Referencing for beginners. Regards, HaeB (talk) 02:51, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Re: Goldie birthdate/place

No, fair enough :) I've just added the reference which I knew of, appears in Nine Lives - his autobiog, mentioned a few times actually from pg9 onwards, relating to his birth, parents, etc. I've been meaning to do a sweep through the book again at some point and ref any other stuff too Altlondon (talk) 21:09, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

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Belated holiday greetings

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Belated holiday greetings. Merry Christmas and happy new year.
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Thanks Pine, to you too! Regards, HaeB (talk) 06:29, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Hi HaeB, firstly thank you for taking the initiative to go forward with the information on the talk page for Jennifer Freyd. I had added this issue to the dispute resolution noticeboard, because I did not know what to do in this scenario. I don't personally deal with these sort of issues all that often, and I found this idea through the WP:EW resolution suggestions. I think I did it at the exact same time as you were writing on the talk page. Does that seem correct? Jooojay (talk) 06:52, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

@Jooojay: Looks like we overlapped a bit there. Thank you for going ahead with this, it seems like a reasonable first step to take, although I'm not too familiar with participation rates at the dispute resolution noticeboard. If things are still unresolved after a couple of days or weeks, a RfC may ultimately be more effective. Regards, HaeB (talk) 15:51, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

BLP Issues

Hi Haeb, thanks for editing the John L. Thornton page. I noticed you reversed my changes and would like to discuss this matter with you. That page has been consistently edited with undue weight, highly questionable citations and tabloid quality sources. I noticed you pointed to NYT as what I was claiming to be a tabloid - not at all. If you look at the edit history of that page, cites from a local Palm Beach journal were added, appalling quotes from a book were included and if you look at the book it does not include ANY named individuals who reported those quotes. In other words, all the quotes on the page are from sources such as "some people said". I actually took the trouble to look at the source material. There are many other insinuations which are factually incorrect, which I attempted to remove.

For example:

The subject of the article was never a "consultant" in mongolia. I removed this section and it was rolled back.

The current version of the article states that the subject was nominated to the Ford Board while he was President of Goldman Sachs. This is not true. The citation simply goes to Bloomberg and indicates the date of his joining the Ford Board. I removed this section but you rolled it back.

The scandalous quotes from a book cited on this page are contested and when you look at the sources in the book not a single named individual is referenced. In other words, the quotes are attributed to "some people said" while the subject of the page has refuted these quotes himself.

Finally, the overall tone of the page is not at all in keeping with the reality one can clearly see with a simple google search on the subject of the page. You will find hundreds upon hundreds of stories - including quotes from the most recent White House event where President Trump thanked the individual in question for the China US Trade deal. Yet, this article is edited in a way that presents overwhelmingly negative stories from "publications" such as the Palm Beach journal and quotes cited to unnamed individuals. This is not a balanced representation. Earlier edits to add balance were removed by the same user who has consistently edited this page only with negative commentary. Interestingly, if you look at the history of the user, you will find that they are only interested in this one page. Does that not indicate clearly what is happening here?

How would you recommend balance be brought to this page in line with the obvious reality of the subject's career?

Srichardson2076 (talk) 19:38, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Second-class citizen

Hi, just thought that you should be aware of WP:ARBPIA4, IP editors shouldn't be making contributions like these ones! ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 16:53, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

@Bellezzasolo: I assume you are referring to the 500/30 rule on that page? Good to know, thanks! (Although unexplained deletions of apparently well-referenced content like in the edit I reverted are basically never OK, even in other topic areas or when logged-in.)

Regards, HaeB (talk) 07:40, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

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Donald Trump failing V

You reverted a quote of the Mueller report in a line starting “The report says”.

The line in the NYT cite fails V for it because the NYT cite is about the Mueller hearing, and a wording from Schumer. It is not something “The report says”.

Please reinstate what cites about the report contain, the direct quote many cites mention “Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts”.

Cheers Markbassett (talk) 05:40, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

@Markbassett: Thank you for clarifying your edit summary. But that's not what the cited NYT article says - the quoted part ("the Trump campaign welcomed the Kremlin sabotage effort") is summarizing Mueller's report ("Mr. Mueller concluded ..."), rather than something Schumer said.

Also, per the note on top of this talk page, I would ask you to conduct such content discussions on the corresponding article talk page instead. I see that there is already an existing discussion about this, where several experienced editors are disagreeing with you. Regards, HaeB (talk) 05:53, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Ok, I have posted there. And note the comments previously there that the NYT is about the hearing, and for a line “The report says” that doesn’t fit. As only a partial support anyway, V would call for deleting the bits remaining unsupported. Really, this half-here bit there instead of the phrase soooo many actually reported and quoted in report reviews just seems SYNTH. Cheers Markbassett (talk) 01:49, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Reasons for reverting

All of my current reverts are related to a single editor who has constantly been pushing POV criticism of Islam either overtly or (when that fails) covertly and has been campaigning for such as well. See: [26] as well as his history

These issues have been raised previously by other editors as well who have reverted many edits. Edits on less popular articles however go uncontested. See: [27]

Many disputes not involving me directly have been had. See: [28][29], [30][31]

The reasons for the edits I have reverted are given on Surah Al Imran talkpage where this the issue of discussing certain topics regarding criticism of Islam (ie topics which critics usually emphasize Jihad, Houris, etc) to the exclusion of others is POV and imbalancing as well. I have been unable to gain response or consensus on the issue. See: [32]

Not sure of where to discuss this. Apologize for breaking 3RR on one occasion. Will take a hiatus for 24 hours. The issues above however remain unaddressed.119.155.40.215 (talk) 11:17, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for these additional explanations, and in any case I agree that your edits were not vandalism - Koreangauteng might want to use that term more cautiously. That said:

• I would recommend leaving a clear rationale on the talk page of the article itself (with specific references to the content you want to remove and the citations used), rather than alluding to previous discussions about other topic, and casting vague aspersions on the editor with whose additions you disagree with. In the first link you proffer above [33], I actually see other users agreeing with several points.
• Concerning your deletion here, do you consider The Message of The Qur'an a reliable source or not?
• Regarding your concern about "undue emphasis" compared to other aspects, I would recommend to achieve balance by adding these other aspects, and refraining from the assumption that they have been actively suppressed by someone ("sidelined") unless the revision history actually shows them being deleted previously.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 00:40, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your guidance. I have made a hopefully more acceptable edit on [34].

As far as casting aspirations is concerned, it would only be honest of me to acknowledge that I do believe that at least some of his edits are pro POV or in bad faith. At least one of his edits have been described as being so by other editors ([35]:Pathawi) ([36]: AhmadF.Cheema) and given some edits I have seen, I agree with them.

As far as the proffered link is concerned, some may have agreed with a number of his points, but I think the balance is against it considering the users who refused to comment [37]. Another admins user also criticized it but the discussion seems to be lost to the archives (here it is [38]). I mainly offered the link because he himself has been advertising it [39].

In any case, I understand the need for assuming good faith and to be more article focused rather than editor focused (which I believe your point was). Thank you again.119.155.38.8 (talk) 15:06, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, could you please move the content-specific comments to the corresponding article talk page? (see also the notice on top of this page)

It's not necessarily a "content fork" if the same topic is covered in two different articles - to the contrary, in many situations this is actually recommended to some extent, see WP:SUMMARY.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 01:59, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Removed them for now. Will make it more talkpage discussion appropriate and move them at a later time. Regards119.155.38.8 (talk) 06:33, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

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COVID-19 Imaging Findings

Hi HaeB, can you clarify what "crazy paving" is on the COVID-19 page? I don't have access at the moment to that particular Lancet Infectious Diseases review you cited and I'm unfamiliar with that particular terminology (I have a feeling many people will be). The wikilink goes to a non-medical page which further adds to the confusion. Thanks! TylerDurden8823 (talk) 06:03, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi TylerDurden8823, as mentioned here, I merely copied this over from the COVID-19 testing article. (I was actually wondering about the same thing as you. Googling it yields e.g. [40], but this is probably better explained by an expert.)

I have posted your question on the talk page of that article (considering that article talk pages are more suitable for content questions, see also the note on top of this page), pinging the editor who had added that Lancet reference.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 06:52, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Shooty Stealy

It's a valid term. At least one chief of police in the US uses it. Well, he's a cartoon one, but he's still a chief of police. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.30.65.92 (talk) 09:12, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

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@Path slopu: Thank you, for you own patrolling work as well! Regards, HaeB (talk) 06:44, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi there! Just wanted to chat a little on an edit you made on my edits on the Tiananmen Protest Article earlier today

Auspicious bwszd (talk) 11:01, 11 April 2020 (UTC)Hi! Just saw your edits and comment :) It's actually the first time I edit a wikipedia article ad post things on talk page so I hope I'm not messing up :) Please correct me if I'm wrong! No offense, just wanted to state the rationale of the section I previously added (which has already been deleted). @HaeB I really appreciate your point that it will be great to include poll results that are specifically about the 1989 Tiananmen events! Unfortunately there isn't such a poll as this topic is censored in China. The reason I initially wrote about the development China made, the consequence of 1989 revolutions around the world and the survey results of how satisfied people are towards the government was that I wanted to provide some contextual information for the shift of the public opinion towards the Tiananmen protests, I was not trying to argue which path is superior, but only to describe what the public opinion on Chinese government was and used it as a context , so it may not be directly related to the Tiananmen events. However I still think it's important to include the facts of the general acceptance of the negative view on Tiananmen protests in contemporary China(i.e. quotes from former democrats, Chinese netizens advocating the government to use tanks on protestors in HongKong on social media, etc) because they are the facts that show that apart from regret and criticism, there is a different voice in China about the Tiananmen events, and this voice as well as why this voice is formed should be included in this online encyclopedia. Happy to hear your thoughts :) Link for the edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests&diff=950150968&oldid=949764701 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Auspicious bwszd (talk • contribs) 15:21, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Propofil edit: noah

Please revert the propofil page to include my edits. You removed edits that I made to more accurately reflect the cited research, because "I didn't provide citations". The original page *wildly* misreprestend the citations. *I* was making edits *because* of bad citations :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Propofol&diff=949563369&oldid=949562640

I removed this line:

"Researchers have identified the site where propofol binds to GABAA receptors in the brain, on the second transmembrane domain of the beta subunit of the GABAA receptor.[70][71] "

The citation doesn't support the statement. The linked studies didn't identify "the site where propofol bind". That is *grossly* innacurate ... and I didn't replace that statement with a more accurate assesment of the research because it's really complicated and doesn't really add to a simple wikipedia explanation of the science. It would just be *really* confusing, as clearly it already is.

The cited article is talking about GABA-a **potentiation** when it refers to propofil activity with "an amino acid residue in transmembrane (TM) domain 3 of the GABAA receptor β2 subunit". "an amino acid residue in transmembrane (TM) domain 3 of the GABAA receptor β2 subunit" is not a *location* in the brain, it is a *subtype* of GABA receptor. The study found that GABA **potentiation** is effected **only** by a mutation of methionine-286 to tryptophan. Mutation to "alanine, cysteine, glutamate, lysine, phenylalanine, serine, or tyrosine" did not effect propofil activity.

All that is fun and interesting but it doesn't boil down into a simple statement like the original one .. which *butchers* both the science and the jargon.

I altered this statement:

" EEG research upon those undergoing general anesthesia with propofol finds that it causes a prominent reduction in the brain's information integration capacity at gamma wave band frequencies."

to say:

EEG research upon those undergoing general anesthesia with propofol finds that it causes a prominent reduction in the brain's information integration capacity, supporting the information integration theory of consciousness and the cognitive unbinding paradigm of general anesthesia

Here the original statement isn't quite as wildly misleading gibberish as the other edit, but it's still kind of misleading. The study is one trying to prove the *information integration theory of human consciousness*. So if we are going to include it in an article about propofil psycho-pharmacology it would be nice to *at least* include that context.

Maybe you can add back in the "gamma wave band frequencies" bit, but it seemed fairly misleading and unnecessary as it was.

Stating the brain *has* "information integration capacity" as if that's a fact.. that can be easily measured with EEG and produces "gamma wave band frequencies" as if there's no other explanation ... without putting it into context that it is *theory* is *very* misleading... especially in an article about propofil's *psychopharmacology* rather than one about say .. our understanding of human consciousness.

I'm not going to come back and edit/argue this again ... so find it in your heart to read the citations next time you want to make edits about citations... and go back and revert the changes you made. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:1C0:4700:341:1484:B15A:FA43:1783 (talk) 09:38, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Actually, the ask for citations was about the claim you added: "... supporting the information integration theory of consciousness and the cognitive unbinding paradigm of general anesthesia". If it is coming from the already cited source, please say so in your edit summary. Also, while think I understand what you are trying to say about this above, the addition as written seems to strengthen the claim and introduce additional aspects to it ("the cognitive unbinding paradigm") rather than qualifying it as you apparently had in mind. Can you find a better wording?

In the edit you link to above, I had separately asked to also "explain the deletions" of the content that was sourced to Neuropharmacology (journal) and phys.org. I appreciate that you have now done so, and - taking you at your word - I have removed this part again. However, next time you need add such an explanation upfront when you remove the content. It doesn't need to be as detailed as above - an edit summary like "cited sources don't say this" might suffice at first. But you can't just leave the edit summary blank and expect the other editors who check your changes to guess your intentions correctly after reading through the various cited sources. It's likely to cost them orders of magnitude more time that it would cost you to write such a brief comment, and thus harm the efforts to keep Wikipedia's medical content accurate and protect readers from misinformation. Please "find it in your heart" next time to include such an explanation (WP:RVREASONS has more about this).

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CNN

Regarding your reversions, I have not made any deletions, my only change was the size of the CNN logo - which I felt was too large. Regards, David, David J Johnson (talk) 09:26, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

@David J Johnson: That's not correct. Please check the diff. Maybe you accidentally edited from an older revision? Regards, HaeB (talk) 09:29, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

I think you must be right. My apologies. Best regards, David, David J Johnson (talk) 09:31, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

@David J Johnson: No worries! Feel free to reinstate the logo change of course (I have no opinion on which size is best). Regards, HaeB (talk) 09:34, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

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Don't believe that I am getting paid because Im not. If you look at the leads of other college pages like notre dame they use the same language, so when Contributor123 pointed out that I shoudn't use the same language I didnt again and changed the notre dame page. If you don't like my edits then go and edit those because i think they are fine. Anything wrong just tell me and ill fix it, like it did for contributor123. Andrewmoody71 (talk) 05:53, 26 April 2020 (UTC) Andrewmoody71

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Got your message. This page contains many inaccuracies and citations to sources like student newspapers that are unreliable and should not be used. You will see that in the past the page was subject to trolling. I was trying to put things right. I will gradually go through the page correcting it. I am an expert on the person concerned! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Indexing it all (talk • contribs) 08:33, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

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Chris needs to publish so we need to stop editing. If need be we can copyedit after publication. IMHO it's this weekend schedule that keeps away many of the copyeditors, but I really need the quiet time at home. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 18:52, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

@Smallbones: Understood. I agree that leaving some minor polishing to after publication is fine, but I don't think it should go out with e.g. incomplete placeholder items like the user groups bullet point [41]. Regards, HaeB (talk) 19:03, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

PSL research university

Hi I tried to add some facts about PSL but my source is the french website of the university. PSL is a young university created by older prestigious schools and universities, so there is not an english reliable source about the number of nobel laureats ect. There is not a lot of information about this uni in english that's why I tried to add more. I don't know if I can provide a source in french...

Thank you. I agree with you and I'm sorry if my only source is the website of the uni. Unfortunately I don't have another source more neutral. It's a public university so the information are real. If I found a better source I'll change it. Regards.

Donald Trump

Regarding your recent reversion of my edits, I have a couple questions:

1. I understand why you might want to keep the sentence describing his general ideology in the lede, but why restore the part about his primary victory? I don't see a sentence about primary victories in articles about other presidents (except Obama, who's primary victory has half a sentence likely due to similar biases).

2. I understand why you wanted to keep the link to Political positions of Donald Trump, but why keep a section with two paragraphs that were clearly written before his election describing policies that are mostly discussed later in the article? In fact, later mentions of many of those policies even note that he talked about them in his campaign.

Thanks, Bzweebl (talk • contribs) 07:21, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

@Bzweebl: Per the notice on top of this page, would you mind conducting the discussion about these specific content questions on the article talk page where other editors can follow it too? Generally speaking, I already said in the edit summary that I might not be opposed to some updates separately from these two points I had mentioned. As another general suggestion, please use edit summaries that capture all significant content changes - e.g. this one failed to mention the removal of populism, protectionism and nationalism from the lede.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 07:41, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

My apologies, I will be sure to do so in the future. Feel free to move this discussion there if you wish, as I'm not sure what the appropriate way to do that would be.

Are you suggesting that you do not object to the parts of my edits described above? I believe I can no longer make those changes once I have been reverted according to the article policy, so I think you would need to do so.

Regarding my edit summary, I did briefly mention my removal of that sentence as "info about campaign" because its placement in the lede suggests that it is referring to his campaign. I do not think the lede should describe his campaign ideology in lieu of his record as president, which as I said in my edit summary is likely an artifact from a pre-election revision.

Thanks, Bzweebl (talk • contribs) 08:04, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

@Bzweebl: I simply haven't formed an opinion about each and every of these aspects. Just start a thread on the article talk page listing your proposed changes (perhaps separately for each aspect). I don't think that only myself could make them. That said, I just had a go at removing the 2016 primaries details from the lede, as I agree you have a point there - let's see what other editors think. Regards, HaeB (talk) 08:29, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

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I had just noticed you had reverted several of the certification edits I made on Tupac’s albums. You are not following the correct source that is listed. As previously stated the RIAA website is the source that is listed, it is the correct company and OFFICIAL company for album certifications. Several of his albums are certified “Diamond” which means sold 10,000,000 units, It absolutely should be nothing lower or higher in the box. You are violating WP:STICKTOTHESOURCE. Not sure why a magazine article is included when the OFFICIAL company that certifies his albums is listed and clearly clarifies the correct numbers. I will be reverting them back, if I catch you starting an edit war I will be going straight to an admin.

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I had just saw your message on another users talk page, you are following a magazine article that was published back in 2011. That’s 9 years ago. As previously stated you need to be following the RIAA source. It is the official website for certifications. Pillowdelight (talk) 02:20, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

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I'm sorry for messing up but it didnt seem that much. I got a hackers they have vandalized pages before too. sorry.

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Can you add the related pages to your watchlist to review them? There's a lot of contentious editing right now and the less watched pages seem to be being ignored now.

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@Harizotoh9: Sure, happy to help (Netflix has already been on my watchlist for many years, this is how I noticed this issue in the first place). I think you did a good job explaining various concerns on the user's talk page; I would recommend continuing to edit the articles as well and referring to those previous explanations using a wikilink in the edit summary. Some of the content-focused discussion should eventually move to the article talk pages instead, to make it easier for other editors to find. Regards, HaeB (talk) 08:09, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

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@Matthiasb: Generell eine prima Idee, aber in diesem speziellen Fall fürchte ich, dass ich in absehbarer Zeit nicht dazu kommen werde - zu viele andere Einträge auf der Wikiresearch-Todo-Liste. Selbstverständlich kannst du (oder andere) gerne selbst eine Übersetzung anfertigen; in dem Fall könnte ich sicher auch Zeit finden, das Resultat vor der Veröffentlichung im Kurier kurz korrekturzulesen. Grüße, HaeB (talk) 20:34, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

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It was not a no knock warrant according to the most current RS NPOV material as currently reflected on the breonna taylor page itself. If you reverted my NPOV RS encyclopedic factual edit in error, rest assured I have fixed it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:46:C801:B1F0:949:25C9:2ECE:BC7A (talk) 04:34, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

This partial revert was not in error. You do need to provide an explanation if you delete sourced material and replace it with unsourced information. It's not reasonable to expect other editors to come up with a guess about your rationale by reading through other articles or starting an investigation themselves. I appreciate that you provided an explanation backed up by references afterwards, but this needs to happen right away.

What's more, I see it has since been explained to you by another editor that the original wording "executing a no-knock search warrant" was actually factually correct, if missing some context. And it looks you have still not provided a justification for removing the fact that theses were plainclothes officers.

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Hello, HaeB. As you can see, I had a problem with an user about Matt Taven. An user said we have to come to an agreement, but he doesn't give arguments and didn't answer at one point. You and other user includeD the content again, but he keeps removing. Since I had a edit warring with him, I think I can't do anything more. Do you have any idea? I would say ANI, but pro wrestling isn't popular between ANI admins. --HHH Pedrigree (talk) 12:07, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

@HHH Pedrigree: It seems that the issue has already since been taken care of administratively, at least for the time being. I have added the article to my watchlist and will see if I can help in the future, but it's not my area of expertise. Your approach looks reasonable; the only additional advice that comes to mind is to 1) make sure the contested text is solid regarding all applicable policies and guidelines (I trust you have checked that the citations satisfy WP:RS, but e.g. "has been heavily criticized" seems a bit WP:WEASEL-ly) and 2) continue referring to your previous explanations (e.g. for an edit like [42] I would rather use an edit summary like "see talk page"). Regards, HaeB (talk) 19:46, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Hello. Thanks for your help. I will keep an eye on the article too. I will change the wasel part a little, to make it less weasel. --HHH Pedrigree (talk) 10:18, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

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Sorry about that sentence

I deleted that sentence in Karen (pejorative), was because I thought it was unnecessary. Because regardless of haircut, anyone could be a "Karen". However, I looked into what you meant, and I realize that my edit was wrong and I will leave the original version as is. (It was wrong because, in other parts of the article, there is mention of that haircut. If I removed that sentence, the rest of the article wouldn't make any sense if they brought up that haircut.) Toad62 (talk) 18:18, 10 November 2020 (UTC)(NOTE: Please ignore that pdf below this message, I tried to get rid of it but don't know how it got here.) (Edit on the notice: I just found out the pdf was used as a reference for one talk page message left here.)

@Toad62: Thanks for the explanation and for looking more closely into the matter. Regarding the PDF footnote someone else had posted above, I just added a reflist template there to avoid this kind of confusion. Regards, HaeB (talk) 18:28, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Clarify revert please?

Hi, I'm not sure what quote you removed. Not every phrase in Wikipedia needs a citation. I don't do a lot of content editing, and my sentences often come from other parts of the article. Why not just add a citation needed tag? Care to elaborate? tx 2605:8D80:4C0:2B86:2121:3C99:6BA2:2E8C (talk) 07:07, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Responded at User_talk:2605:8D80:4C0:2B86:2121:3C99:6BA2:2E8C. Regards, HaeB (talk) 07:15, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

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@Sportzpikachu: Thanks, I am indeed well aware of such templates and have used them several times in just the last few days, as one might find from my contributions list.

One reason why I didn't do so in this case is that the editor seemed to use rapidly changing IPs (see the revision history), i.e. the message was unlikely to be received by the correct recipient.

What's more, there seems to be no solid evidence that "stern warnings" are effective at discouraging repeat vandals - they might actually spur them on instead. Regards, HaeB (talk) 09:33, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

@HaeB: I see, sorry for the warning, they really should add some global warning system ―sportzpikachu _{my talkcontribs} 00:33, 2 December 2020 (UTC)