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Smelling pistakes: In addition to bone-deep burn scars on my left hand I now also have C7 radiculopathy, so my typing is particularly erratic right now. I have a spellcheck plugin but it can't handle larger text blocks. You're welcome to fix spelling errors without pinging me, but please don't change British to American spelling or indeed vice-versa.

JzG is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia soon.

God Jul och Gott Nytt År!

Gråbergs Gråa Sång is wishing you the season's greetings.
Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's solstice or Christmas,
Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus,
or the Saturnalia,
this is a special time of year for (almost) everyone.

JzG! Are you still out there?

Hi JzG! I was going through some old ArbCom cases and ran into one where you had added some statements. I realized that I haven't spoken to you in quite some time, and I see that you haven't made any edits since May... That sucks! I don't want to see someone like you go! If anything, I hope that you're doing well and that you're happy and that you'll someday return here. I just wanted to leave you a message and let you know that I was thinking about you... Keep in touch. :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 23:05, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I hope it goes without saying, despite the fact that I'm saying it, that many of us feel the same way. Happy new year Girth Summit _(blether) 23:13, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

We didn't cross paths very often lately, JzG, but we could really use you back. If you get the urge to return, please say "Yes!" Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:14, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

October JzG sighting at WP:RSN. Does my heart good. --Floquenbeam (talk) 20:57, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Lovely to hear from you! I have spent the past two-and-a-bit years working at incredibly high stress for a hospital. In that time I have retired around 80% of their legacy application and server estate, instituted architectural guidelines and piloted the process for demand review, reduced the measured risk burden by around 80%, instituted objective risk monitoring using Tenable, and I've just proposed (and had accepted) a plan to remediate or mitigate most of the rest. I have, in short, been busy in that there real life of which you read, and that really wasn't going to fit in with having to be nice to people who sincerely believe that Ashlii Babbit was the real victim of the "legitimate political discourse" on Jan 6 2020.

I have a week's leave. I have 28 days to take before year end, having managed I think three days off this year so far (including weekends). And because I have an offshore team and an onshore customer, my working day can be 8am to 3am.

I thought I'd drop in :-) Guy (help! - typo?) 18:44, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yikes, sounds like, umm..., a lot of responsibility. There will be plenty for you to do here when you are free! Johnuniq (talk) 22:50, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Glad you dropped by! Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:19, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to hear you're OK - and busy, by the sounds of things! Hope you enjoy your break. Girth Summit _(blether) 11:17, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If Guy doesn't look at Talk:Alexander technique real soon now, where Eddy is being accused of plagiarism, I may be forced to contact him on bookfarce. That would mean giving Guy my real name. He always forgets me. - Roxy the dog 16:00, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I try never to remember people's RW names unless they are "out" on Wikipedia. Even when they out themselves, this has led to huge problems, e.g. with a user whose identity was revealed by accident off-wiki, showing him to be the source of fact-washing his own side in Wikipedia disputes via a journalist. That ended badly for everyone. Guy (help! - typo?) 16:16, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Very happy see the little JzG! bishzilla _ROARR!! pocket 19:56, 27 October 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Hah! Good to see you're still around! RasputinAXP 20:48, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This is a few months late, but welcome back! Wishing you well. starship .paint (exalt) 09:40, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome indeed! Just came across your signature here. It's always great to run in to another 'old-timer'. Hope you're well, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 11:21, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

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Guideline and policy news

A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

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Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
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Arbitration

The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

Paula Vennells

Please, why have you deleted the reference and link to the petition numbers on Paula_Vennells? Aren't primary sources the best ones? No way is it a solicitation to cast a vote, nor can one do so from the periodic archival pages. Please explain else I will revert your deletion which I believe contradicts wiki policy. Thank you. :-) Albin-Counter (talk) 01:00, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can't keep on waiting for your response in a very fast-changing scenario, so reluctantly reverted. Kindly engage before deleting the like in future. There are many other related updates too; you will find them on the wikipage. I can cite other policies too should you continue to hold that you are correct. Albin-Counter (talk) 14:36, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) Albin-Counter, you are mistaken - primary sources are generally avoided, since we are writing an encyclopedia. This is discussed in greater or lesser detail in various locations, but a good starting point is WP:RSPRIMARY. If the information concerns the biography of a living person, WP:BLPPRIMARY is also worth looking at. Girth Summit _(blether) 15:35, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The matter is resolved because the petition succeeded and the physical emblem of the honour (CBE) has been returned. Hence all that remains is the press report and archival (non-live) link. Thanks. Albin-Counter (talk) 13:50, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We don't use priomary sources, and we especially don't use petitions as priomary sources for their existence, for reasons which should be fairly obvious when you consider the purpose of petitions. Guy (help! - typo?) 23:26, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; I get you. Here, what was provided were a link to a web-archive of the petition page, not the page itself. No votes could be cast on it. While it is possible to find what the original "live" page was from the archive, it is also linked to in the press report pages, and so providing them allows navigation to the petition page with a single click. Albin-Counter (talk) 13:52, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We have a third-party source. That's sufficient. Guy (help! - typo?) 17:26, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unblock request for Okkio

User talk:Okkio has an unblock request for a block you made just over 15 (!!!) years ago. --Yamla (talk) 16:43, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. --Yamla (talk) 13:47, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

January 2024

Your edit to Burzynski Clinic has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Your edit inserts Reuters' copyrighted content.
"Online claims that the drugs are a cancer “cure” and that any of them has been FDA-approved are misleading" =
"Online claims that the drugs are a cancer “cure” and that any of them has been FDA-approved, are misleading".
You're a comma short of verbatim copy. RudolfoMD (talk) 02:43, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's plagiarism. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 02:59, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's a summary of what the source says, and is entirely appropriate. If you really insist, you can put it in quotes, but it's unnecessary because it is a de minimis quote. Guy (help! - typo?) 19:10, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's a concise statement of the facts. There's no need to rewrite it in a contorted, sub-optimal way. In any case, copyright is not applicable to single sentences. It could go in quotes, but it's not plagiarism because it's cited. Jehochman ^Talk 01:55, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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 : It's plagiarism. -- [[User:Valjean|Valjean]] ([[User talk:Valjean|talk]]) ('''''[[Help:Notifications|<span style="color:#0bf">PING me</span>]]''''') 02:59, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
 :It's a summary of what the source says, and is entirely appropriate. If you ''really'' insist, you can put it in quotes, but it's unnecessary because it is a ''de minimis'' quote. '''[[user:JzG|Guy]]''' <small>([[user talk:JzG|help!]] - [[User:JzG/Typos|typo?]])</small> 19:10, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
+:It's a concise statement of the facts.  There's no need to rewrite it in a contorted, sub-optimal way.  In any case, copyright is not applicable to single sentences. It could go in quotes, but it's not plagiarism because it's cited. [[User:Jehochman|Jehochman]] <sup>[[User talk:Jehochman|Talk]]</sup> 01:55, 19 January 2024 (UTC)