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WP:ELECTCOM2021

Hello John M Wolfson. Thank you for volunteering for the Electoral Commission for the 2021 ArbCom Election. Following the closure of the ELECTCOM RfC, you have been selected as a reserve commissioner. Congratulations! Some important pages to watch about the election are: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Coordination, Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Coordination, Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021, and others in Category:Wikipedia Arbitration Committee Elections 2021. As a reservist you have no official duties, but your assistance and expertise are welcome as a de facto coordinator. In the event of a vacancy in the commission, you may be activated - should this be required it is generally declared by the majority of the remaining active commissioners. Again, thank you for volunteering for this important position. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 23:38, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

RfA Proposals

John, I'm not sure why you removed the "don't post here yet" besides some nominal sense the template had been up too long. The idea is to do a whole bunch of work to launch it so everyone is noticed at once. I want to give people a bit more time to weigh in on things before starting a clock that will be hard to reverse. Beyond that, I would suggest your proposal might need a subpage as what was there was not a 1-3 sentence neutral statement. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 20:25, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • @Barkeep49: The template explicitly says to remove it once it's been several hours since the last edit; I also interpreted this diff to mean that its launch would be imminent. On a lesser note, I don't want to create too many subpages, and I tried my best to be neutral on the proposal.  – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 20:28, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Templates are laborious for me so I didn't want to create a custom one that had perfect wording so I went with the least worst one. I had hoped that by doing that, rather than the more common {{Under construction}} everyone would understand the intent and wait. In the end no huge deal. I understand the reluctance to create too many subpages. It is indeed a balance between creating subpages and trying to keep a page that will be easily navigable especially if we get a large number of proposals. That difficult with too much is something that's already come up on the Brainstorming page and is certainly a concern I want to be sensitive to owing to the desire to reach as large of a segement of the community as possible. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 20:34, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Just wanted to let you know that the proposals period has now started. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:45, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Adminabili

You seem to have responded to a comment of mine other than the one that used the word "adminabiles" with small details about the plural. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 00:36, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiCup 2021 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is Botswana The Rambling Man (submissions), who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:

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Quick question about a mislinked diff

Hi John, hope you're well. I was looking at WT:VITAL and saw the link to a discussion about a biography moratorium, but the diff linked (Special:Diff/10519587) goes to the wrong place -- a vandalism revert in mainspace. Any chance that could be fixed? I'm sticking my head back in a little bit, and I'm wanting to catch up on some stuff in that sphere. Sorry to come to your doorstep with a complaint, and have a good day! Vaticidalprophet 03:24, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Flopped image

"Vertically-flipped image" might have a different interpretation than "image reflected along a vertical axis", unfortunately... AnonMoos (talk) 16:35, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It's "Horizontally flipped image" which would actually mean the same thing as "image mirror-reflected along a vertical axis", so you gave it a different meaning when you shortened it. AnonMoos (talk) 16:50, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
That's fair. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 16:53, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Holiday greetings (2021)

John,
I sincerely hope your holiday season goes well this year especially with what we went through last year. I'm optimistic that 2022 will be a better year for all of us: both in real life and on Wikipedia. Wishing you the best from, Interstellarity (talk) 13:10, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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09970549022 2400:AC40:60B:FD61:799E:6EF3:AEFE:F3DE (talk) 23:38, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

RFA 2021 Completed

The 2021 re-examination of RFA has been completed. 23 (plus 2 variants) ideas were proposed. Over 200 editors participated in this final phase. Three changes gained consensus and two proposals were identified by the closers as having the potential to gain consensus with some further discussion and iteration. Thanks to all who helped to close the discussion, and in particular Primefac, Lee Vilenski, and Ymblanter for closing the most difficult conversations and for TonyBallioni for closing the review of one of the closes.

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TY and FYI

Thank you for your earnest attention to sourcing the First Wikipedia edit page. I want, FYI, to call your attention to my beginning a top to bottom check of citations and their formatting (since I have no subject matter expertise to bring to bear, there). That is, adding access-dates, authors, wikilinks, etc.

In doing the first eight citations, I had to make one correction (demoted <ref name = "gizmo"> citation, since no mention there of the January 15th date). But more critically I hit a wall in trying to interpret and check the author TwoOneTwo (HomePage) citation, because the page that appears via the link does not seem to be the one desired. (User:TwoOneTwo does not appear on that webpage, nor does the date given for the citation appear there—so something is amiss.) I wrote an in-text (<!-- type) note to explain, and tagged the note text and the citation so that it could be rectified.

Again, kudos for the hard referencing work there; I hope my once-over of checking and making consistent did not step on your toes. (Said since I noticed your "gawdawful" in the edit summary only after the work.) Cheers. 2601:246:C700:558:4934:BD1D:2B41:D139 (talk) 21:55, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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