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Climate change DRN

So, the settings used by the archival bot on the DRN page are clearly overzealous, as it had somehow already archived our ongoing DRN! Can you please do something about that? InformationToKnowledge (talk) 09:29, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

User:InformationToKnowledge - I have unarchived it back to DRN. I will change the bot parameter from 48 hours to 72 hours, but the real problem is that the Do Not Archive Until date is being initialized to two weeks after start rather than three weeks after start, and I have requested technical advice on what to do about that. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:23, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! Notably, the bot archive itself remains unchanged - does that mean you would be effectively forced to manually paste the discussion into the same archive once it actually is closed, to prevent the bot from archiving it twice? That, and I hope @Bogazicili saw that the discussion is back in its rightful place, so that we can move on to the next step ASAP. InformationToKnowledge (talk) 08:50, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll add my revised suggestion next week. Bogazicili (talk) 18:22, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

I did not remove the case from the archive, so when the case is finished, it will be archived again by the bot. I am not concerned about the double archival. This has occasionally happened before. It should happen less often now that I have changed one of the bot parameters, so that it only archives after 72 hours of silence. There is still something of a mystery about the Do Not Archive Until date. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:03, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello. For the RfC, there doesn't seem to be any new votes in awhile. Should we publicize it in several wiki projects, such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change? Bogazicili (talk) 16:12, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Robert McClenon and InformationToKnowledge, I restarted the RFC since it wasn't properly closed.[1] We can let it for a few more weeks I guess. Bogazicili (talk) 17:26, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

It's unfortunate that to date, virtually all the comments from outside editors (not already extensively involved with this page) have been on length, and not on any of the finer points. Granted, it was my own choice to switch to the four-paragraph format at the last minute which caused this. Arguably, it's better that the lack of community support for the large section size is revealed now than if we had attempted to expand on it later.

Still, I wish there was a way to at least get some input regarding our disagreements over the year 2050 projections out of this RFC. I am tempted to use this "restart" as an excuse to withdraw the four-paragraph wording in favour of something like my penultimate proposal (which would be close to Bogazicili's text outside of that area) but I doubt this would work.

Otherwise, would I be allowed to write such a proposal as "Option D" (or C3?) in the Survey, and perhaps attach a note to A informing editors it is being depreciated in favour of D/C3? I would just rather not see the RFC end with only one substantive question addressed. InformationToKnowledge (talk) 00:30, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

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Rafida

Hi! First, thanks for your patience with this case. I really appreciate your help. Second, I wonder if your decision to close the dispute can be appealed. I already admitted that my lengthy statement was an honest mistake; please see the addendum to my list statement. I simply missed the last paragraph of your statement that required us to comment only on the RFC. To close the case is perhaps an overreaction, even though you have every right to do so. With the moderated discussion now closed, I fear that Shadowwarrior8 has successfully bullied their way in this issue, removing and falsifying content with impunity. Should I open a new dispute? If not, where would it be possible to find justice in this case? Thank you for your advice. Albertatiran (talk) 06:41, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Albertatiran - You ask if you can open a new dispute at DRN. I will not prevent you from opening a new case. I think it is very unlikely that a volunteer will accept it, but you can try. I will not reopen it. I have tried and not succeeded. If a volunteer asked me for advice about whether to take the case, I would advise them not to take it, because both editors are discussing the other editor as much as they are discussing content. I don't think that trying to restart this discussion at DRN is likely to be useful. I think that Shadowwarrior8 has said much the same thing, and DRN is voluntary. So I don't advise asking another volunteer to reopen the case at DRN.

You ask where would it be possible to find justice in this case? Wikipedia isn't about finding justice, but about building an encyclopedia. If you think that the conduct of Shadowwarrior8 is interfering with building the encyclopedia, you can report SW at WP:ANI after reading the boomerang essay. If you want to involve other editors who might have some knowledge and a different perspective, on the other hand, I would suggest that you ask for other editors at WikiProject Islam. (Some of them might actually be either Shi'a Muslims or Sunni Muslims.) Robert McClenon (talk) 20:26, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Climate Change RFC

Moved from User talk:Robert McClenon § Climate change DRN

Hello. For the RfC, there doesn't seem to be any new votes in awhile. Should we publicize it in several wiki projects, such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change? Bogazicili (talk) 16:12, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Robert McClenon and InformationToKnowledge, I restarted the RFC since it wasn't properly closed.[2] We can let it for a few more weeks I guess. Bogazicili (talk) 17:26, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

It's unfortunate that to date, virtually all the comments from outside editors (not already extensively involved with this page) have been on length, and not on any of the finer points. Granted, it was my own choice to switch to the four-paragraph format at the last minute which caused this. Arguably, it's better that the lack of community support for the large section size is revealed now than if we had attempted to expand on it later.

Still, I wish there was a way to at least get some input regarding our disagreements over the year 2050 projections out of this RFC. I am tempted to use this "restart" as an excuse to withdraw the four-paragraph wording in favour of something like my penultimate proposal (which would be close to Bogazicili's text outside of that area) but I doubt this would work.

Otherwise, would I be allowed to write such a proposal as "Option D" (or C3?) in the Survey, and perhaps attach a note to A informing editors it is being depreciated in favour of D/C3? I would just rather not see the RFC end with only one substantive question addressed. InformationToKnowledge (talk) 00:30, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Bogazicili - Why did you restart the RFC? What do you mean when you say that it wasn't properly closed? Do you mean that there wasn't a formal closure? If so, that is because we didn't request a formal closure. Why did you restart it? It was correctly stopped automatically by the bot. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:38, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Robert McClenon, I restarted the RfC per Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment#Restarting_an_RfC and because there was no Wikipedia:Closure requests request. You also didn't say anything about it here Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard/Archive_245#Climate_change. You also hadn't responded to my question above about publicising it in WikiProject Climate change, so I didn't know you were paying attention. Discussions get archived quickly in Talk:Climate change, so I didn't want the RfC archived before someone can respond from Wikipedia:Closure requests. Bogazicili (talk) 20:22, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Oh I see you said it will run for a month at the top here and mentioned what to do after the bot deactivates it. Do you want me to request formal closure now? Bogazicili (talk) 20:33, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Bogazicili - At this point, requesting formal closure would be a good idea. You can do that, or I can do that. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:05, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Ok, but I think we could have gotten more responses and a more clear consensus if we had publicized it at WikiProject Climate change. You might see another version of this at DRN in the near future. I'll leave closure up to you unless InformationToKnowledge objects? Thanks for the moderation of this topic by the way. Bogazicili (talk) 21:14, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

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Draft review reminder

Hia @Robert McClenon. Noticed you've been reviewing Draft:Shop-Vac and Draft:Tenzing_Norgay_Trainor for three days now, thought I'd ping you to remind you in case you had forgotten (I do sometimes!). Qcne (talk) 08:31, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, User:Qcne - I remembered them at about the same time. Robert McClenon (talk) 14:51, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

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How to proceed

Thank you for your help. How would you recommend I proceed? You said to discuss changes on the talk page but given the earlier response and previous behaviour that is almost certainly not going to achieve anything. Would an RfC be the best option like you mentioned in that case? I've read through the page on RfCs and the only thing I'm unsure about is categories, would the category be 'animals' (which doesn't exist) because it's a breed of dog, or would it be something like 'regional' given it's about origin/nationality (loosely). Traumnovelle (talk) 16:44, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Traumnovelle - I am a little confused by your question about RFC categories, because I don't see a 'regional' category. If you mean the categories that are specified in the {{RFC}} tag, I would suggest using 'soc' and 'hist', but, in my experience, that doesn't make that much difference. What is more important is to publicize the RFC on a WikiProject, which would be WikiProject Dogs Do you want assistance with the RFC? Robert McClenon (talk) 17:12, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

I've edited out the template because I believe it broke formatting and tried to insert the entire Wikiproject Talk page.

I didn't mean a specific category but more so given the dispute isn't solely about the dog whether a different category would be appropriate. If you wish to create it yourself I would appreciate it if you do help, but I do believe I am capable of creating with the correct categories now and with a neutral description thanks to your what you've written. Traumnovelle (talk) 17:16, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

I suspect this was just a software glitch, but I got a ping about this talk section. If there's anything that anyone needs from me, please let me know. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:06, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Tryptofish - Not a software error, but typist error. I used curly braces when I should have used square brackets. This transcluded the project onto my talk page, and that did weird things until it was fixed. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:09, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

I've created the RfC, I have notified the previous two involved users and Wikiproject Dogs. I also gave my comment below the neutral statement (as a reply), which I believe is what you meant to do. If you could double check that I have followed the procedure correctly that would be helpful thanks. Traumnovelle (talk) 06:54, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

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Rejection of Vahika draft

I will add more information to the Vahika section based on your comments however it’s separate to the Bahlika wiki which you stated the information could have been merged with as Bahlika referred to Bactria whereas Vahika referred to central Punjab with a total different history and so for that reason I don’t think it should have been rejected. Maniacdude (talk) 11:21, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Maniacdude - I didn't reject the draft. I declined it. There is a difference. A declined draft can be edited and resubmitted. It was not clear to me as a reviewer how and whether Vahika is the same as or largely overlaps with Bahlika, and so it would not be clear to a reader either. If they are clearly different, please explain, in the draft, how they are different, so that it will be clear to a future reader, and resubmit. I didn't understand whether they were the same or overlapped or were different, and I think that a future reader also would not have understood what the differences were. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:49, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the constructive criticism, I’ll be sure to add that in and make it clearer Maniacdude (talk) 16:27, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

@Maniacdude Please explain your use of alternate accounts. Generally, one does not tag team with one's self on the same article or draft. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 16:34, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Timtrent - They aren't trying to confuse, but they aren't trying to enlighten the other editors either, because they haven't declared what their use of the alternate accounts is. They are User:Zenithxxx on a real computer and User:Maniacdude on a mobile device. If they are using a mobile app from the mobile device, they should scrap it and use a web browser. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:35, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you Robert. Somehow you always get to the root of the issue. I have left firmly worded questions on each user talk page. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 21:45, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes as Robert said. My Zenith account is on my laptop and this account is on my mobile for whenever I’m away from my laptop Maniacdude (talk) 00:57, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

Comment on draft

Hi @Robert McClenon. I’m responding to a comment you made on Draft:Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1995–96. I’m a bit confused. Was the comment supposed to include suggestions on how to improve the draft? Because I don’t see any. Does it just mean it’s still waiting for a review? Thanks. Spectrallights (talk) 17:54, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Spectrallights - That comment is both for the information of other reviewers and is advice to the submitter to look for any previous advice by the reviewer who draftified it. I am not giving any new advice about improving the draft. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:39, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Draft:James Francis Strange

Did you mean to leave this 'under review', Robert? 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 11:17, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Timtrent - No. Thank you. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:42, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Timtrent - I've implemented a flag on my machine to keep track of what is under review. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:53, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

If it is something reviewers as whole might benefit from, (eg a gadget) please let us all know. Otherwise more power to your elbow 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 06:51, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Timtrent - It is about as far from being something that other reviewers could benefit from as you could imagine. It is a flag in an Access database. The Access database keeps track of all of the pages that I have reviewed, and all of the AFDs I have participated in. What do you expect a retired database engineer to do? (It isn't done with my elbow so much as with my wrists and fingers, but that is a detail.) Robert McClenon (talk) 17:24, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Now that used to be a skill I had, integrating Access databases with web sites, but I have let it fade! I am quite relieved about that 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 17:39, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Re: RfC

Just a note to say that the way you signed this RfC was highly unusual and out of the ordinary, making it look like you were responding neutrally to a "no" vote left unsigned by another editor. Not sure if you intended it to look that way, but normal, best practice is to sign immediately after your vote, not on a separate line and comment. Viriditas (talk) 03:09, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Viriditas - Signature added on the No vote, and left standing on the comment. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:01, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

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Climate change RFC

I think it's time to request closure for this. InformationToKnowledge, can you confirm? I'd have normally requested closure by now, but I am being more cautious since it was part of the DRN process. Bogazicili (talk) 19:13, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

If there is no way to get feedback on the questions we care the most about out of it, then we might as well, I guess. InformationToKnowledge (talk) 10:38, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

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Denice Zamboanga

Hello, Robert,

I saw you nominated this article for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Denice Zamboanga and it was deleted in a unanimous decision. But it has since been recreated by a sockmaster. I just came across it as I was handling one of their sockpuppets. Do you think this article has improved or does it warrant a second visit to AFD? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:15, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

User:Liz - The article does not differ enough from the deleted article to satisfy notability. I have sent it on a second visit to AFD. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:46, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

For handing out "low-quality prizes" ...

		The Winnowing Fan Barnstar
		... this is the only proper thing to do! Well played, sir! Ravenswing 02:38, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, User:Ravenswing. I hadn't seen that barnstar, or some of the related barnstars. Interesting. A trout is a low-quality prize, but lacks originality. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:53, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

You're quite welcome! Ravenswing 09:23, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Climate Change RfC Closure

Robert McClenon and InformationToKnowledge, FYI: I requested closure [3] Bogazicili (talk) 18:44, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Eight years!

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AfD

I saw the Matias Fernandez-Pardo AfD and just wanted to give you a heads up that the combativeness you're dealing with from EpicAdventurer is something I tried to help with awhile back that was summarized here. I still wonder how much a mentor type situation would help out with that editor, but the tone at that AfD doesn't look super promising either. In short, it's not just you, and you're being pretty even-handed with the draftify. KoA (talk) 22:06, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

User:KoA - It doesn't really matter whether they are angry at me or angry at everybody, and I agree that it is the latter. I thought of reporting them at WP:ANI for the personal attack and decided it was better to leave it alone. Anyway, User:GiantSnowman is an admin, and will warn them if he thinks that they need warning. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:18, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, I was in the same boat about thinking about ANI for a time after seeing that, but moreso hoping someone could given them guidance to steer away from the cliff rather than trying to get them blocked. ToBeFree tried to give them some guidance after their last warning[4], so hopefully between the two of those admins things get turned around. KoA (talk) 03:04, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

User:KoA - I think that mentoring is very seldom useful for users who have a problem with anger. They are usually just angry people. There is only so much that a mentor can do to tell them not to express their anger, and eventually they will be blocked. There are two risks that I see. First, when the angry user is taken to WP:ANI again, they may be given one more warning than is appropriate, because they have the mentor. That is no big deal. Second, they may burn out the mentor. That may be a big deal, because the mentor is a valuable editor. It is less bad to lose the angry user too soon than to lose the mentor. So I think that we should either ignore angry users, warn them, or block them, but not mentor them. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:03, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

I agree with a lot of your sentiments about mentoring as you describe it actually. I was thinking in this case more of a one-time event of an editor they didn't view as being in dispute with walking through the behavior issues (and what to do instead) as a sort of last ditch effort. I guess when I say a bit of mentoring is needed, it's moreso someone like an admin going through the steps I just mentioned as a warning that is meant to guide rather than something that would cause them to just lash out. The latter might still happen regardless for a lot of editors in that situation too though. I guess I should have been clear I didn't mean full-blown mentorship as is sometimes used on-wiki. Either way, hopefully disruption is minimized. Not much else to done at this point at least. KoA (talk) 03:00, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

Questionable drafts

Found a series of drafts by a user that are generally are junk, but a few which are unsettling, and would like your opinion on the series as a whole since you have more MFD experience than I and this isn't as clear cut as my other recent delnoms. Do you consider these to be (generally) mundane and not worthy of deletion, or is there enough of a pattern, especially with the pages WANNA F*** ME and SHOULD I KILL MYSELF that they are egregiously contrary to Wikipedia that this user is warn/ban worthy and this whole series is offensively deletable? U5 will not apply (user has edited in mainspace), so I was thinking G3s on most, and G10s on the offensive/problematic ones, but want a second opinion given the uncomfortable nature of these. Thanks for your thoughts, Zinnober9 (talk) 22:47, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

User:Zinnober9 - I will comment more in a little while, but that user needs to be indeffed. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:01, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

User:Zinnober9 - Thank you. I have reported the user at WP:ANI. They haven't edited in two weeks, but I think that when they try to edit, they should be expected to explain, in their unblock request, what they were trying to do. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:36, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

User is now blocked (with talk turned off) and the full set of drafts deleted. Thank you for your replies and taking this to ANI while I was eating dinner. I appreciate it! Zinnober9 (talk) 01:30, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

You're welcome, User:Zinnober9. I took it to WP:ANI while my dinner was cooking. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:35, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grrr (2024 film)

Hello, Could you have a look at the Afd or the page and see if you don't wish to change your !vote, so that the page can be speedy-kept? Yours is currently the only !vote that's not a Keep and the nomination has been withdrawn. !Thank you. -My, oh my! (Mushy Yank) 11:00, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Ukrainian language/Names/Rsk6400

Hello, Robert McClenon. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Names/Rsk6400".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:43, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Question about your comment.

How can I add a tag for a redirect to be deleted? Newtatoryd222 (talk) 13:08, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

User:Newtatoryd222 - Do you have Twinkle? If so, from the CSD tab, select AFC move. Then wait for an admin to delete the redirect. If not, either get Twinkle, or put {{db-afc-move}} at the bottom of the redirect. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:06, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Did you mean Twinkl or Twinkle? Newtatoryd222 (talk) 16:09, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

User:Newtatoryd222 - I was not familiar with Twinkl, which is not related to Wikipedia. I mean the Twinkle gadget. Reviewers should be advised to install the Twinkle gadget. If you don't have Twinkle, add {{db-afc-move}} to the bottom of the redirect, and then install Twinkle. If you have Twinkle, use the CSD tab. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:39, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

DTParker1000

The discussion at AN/I seems to have been prematurely archived (to the second most recent archive) after being caught up in a preceding section missing its Archive bottom template. It might not be the only section, but I'm on mobile atm so its been tricky working out this much and I'm not going to attempt to fix it. Please could you take a look. Thanks Awkward42 (talk) [the alternate account of Thryduulf (talk)] 05:49, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes, User:Awkward42, User:Thryduulf, the thread has been archived. Whether it was premature depends on how you define premature archiving. The bot was working correctly, because there was no activity in that thread for 72 hours. The archival wasn't early; the closure was late. There were six editors supporting the topic-ban and the proposer, for seven supports and no opposition. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:09, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look, it really wasn't clear on mobile. Thryduulf (talk) 21:34, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Please do not prefix draft-protected category links with colon

Hi Robert. Thanks for your reviews, contributions, project comments, and everything else you do. One thing: few users who create drafts bother to nest their categories inside a {{Draft categories}} template, but it's wonderful when they do, and I wish everyone did. This guarantees that categories are handled properly both on the Draft page (that is, displayed, but not categorized), and, crucially, also in mainspace whenever the Draft is released there, with no update required. This is true even if they forget to remove the {{Draft categories}} template, which is the whole point of using it: it handles categories differently, but correctly, in each namespace.

When you precede draft-protected categories with a colon, as you did in this edit at Draft:French Pavilion of Versailles, it defeats the whole purpose of having the {{Draft categories}} template, and means that when someone releases the page to mainspace, the categories will still be links, not categories, requiring someone to edit the article again to enable the categories (if they remember that they're disabled). The whole beauty of {{Draft categories}} is that it works in both, and you don't have to remember anything. I hope I can persuade you to add the {{Draft categories}} template to Drafts that don't have them, if you happen to be reviewing an article and head down to the footers of the Draft to check them out. Once again, thanks for all you do. Mathglot (talk) 07:50, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

User:Mathglot - I would like your permission to copy this to the Articles for Creation talk page. At this time I am asking User:Novem Linguae if shehe will take a look. I almost never edit categories. I know that I know little about categories. The edit in question was a case where I pressed a button to invoke the AFCH script, and the rest of the editing was done by the script. I think that this is an issue with the script. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:52, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi, Robert; I suspected it may be something like that, because after I wrote you, I noticed similar edits to categories in other drafts up for Afc review. (I am not a habitué there, but am starting to learn a bit.) There is another angle to this, which is that there is a bot (DannyS712 bot 3) that adds colons to disable category links in drafts; that is being looked at right now with a view to a possible change to bot operation to use {{Draft categories}} instead—see this discussion. I have no idea if the bot and Afc are linked in any way, or if that is just coincidental and therefore o/t to the Afc aspect of this. You are of course welcome to copy any portion of this discussion or just take the central idea and rework it at Afc in your own way; I know I can be wordy sometimes, and I'm not particularly knowledgeable about Afc, so you may be able to distill the essential idea in a way that is clearer for folks there. Any way you want to do it, is fine with me. Mathglot (talk) 19:52, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Just reread the bot conversation, and it looks like the two are related somehow through the AFCH helper script, although I don't know how. Mathglot (talk) 21:15, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Yes, User:Mathglot, that is what I was saying. The category edits were made by the AFCH helper script when I pushed a button. I was inserting a comment into a draft. The comment included a template that was expanded by a bot, but that is a detail. It appears that the script also edited the categories. I was aware that the helper script sometimes did various sorts of cleanup. As I said, I very seldom edit categories. Because I know that I know little of categories, when I accept a draft, I normally tag it as {{Improve categories}} so that gnomes will edit the categories. I don't mess with categories, so I knew that it was the helper script. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:47, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

You did say that, and I must've glossed right over it as it didn't ring a bell until I reread the bot discussion, so it sounds like you nailed it at the outset. Not sure where we go from here, but likely the outcome of that conversation will play a role, and if the bot is updated per the request, it sounds like the problem will go away on the Afc side, iiuc. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 22:04, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

I have pinged you, User:Mathglot, at the AFC talk page. Some of them know more about how the script works than I do. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:32, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Psst, Novem Linguae has his preferred pronouns set and they are he/him. – Joe (talk) 08:13, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Pro tip: if unsure, you can use any of the {{they}}-series of templates, like {{they|Novem Linguae}} → he;{{their|Bishonen}} → her; {{they have|Joe Roe}} → he has; {{they do|Joe Roe}} → he does;{{them|Mathglot}} → them; and so on. Mathglot (talk) 08:25, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Oh this is amazing. Thank you @Mathglot for sharing that. (Sorry for the clutter @Robert McClenon!) Star Mississippi 17:24, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

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Next time you think it important to be clever, could you please not perpetuate stereotypes of blended families? Floquenbeam (talk) 18:11, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

User:Floquenbeam - Point made. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:16, 10 July 2024 (UTC)