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Memorial tablets etc

Have now had a chance to look at your wiki entry. It is super and was much enjoyed. Regret unable help with leaflet. suggest you contact Commonwealth Graves people to see if they can provide copy of leaflet.

Weglinde (talk) 19:29, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Memorial tablets to the British Empire dead of the First World War

On 4 December 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Memorial tablets to the British Empire dead of the First World War, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in the 1920s and 1930s a series of memorial tablets to the British Empire dead of the First World War (example pictured) were erected in French and Belgian cathedrals by the Imperial War Graves Commission? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Memorial tablets to the British Empire dead of the First World War. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 08:01, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Congratulations on the DYK, Carcharoth! Your article definitely deserves the recognition. AGK [•] 21:52, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked IPs

Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard

There is a serious backlog of about 20K individual IPs that are blocked without expiration. I have broken the IPs into groups of 5000: m:User:とある白い猫/English Wikipedia open proxy candidates. So they are effectively blocked until time ends. This creates considerable potential collateral damage as the owners of IPs tend to be not very consistent. Some of these IPs are on dynamic ranges which results in arbitrary blocks of good users. Vast majority of the blocks go back years all the way to 2004 - some were preemptively blocked. Nowadays even open proxies normally do not get indefinite blocks.

The problem is that no single admin wants to review this many IPs and very few have the technical capability to review. Such a technical review would be non-trivial for individual IPs which in my humble opinion would be a complete waste of time. I feel ArbCom could step in and provide criteria for bulk action. A bulk unblock of all indefinite blocks (with exceptions if the specific single IP unblocks are contested) before - say - 2010 would be a good start.

Open proxies tend to be better handled at meta as open proxies are a global problem for all wikis.

-- A Certain White Cat ^chi? 11:31, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library Survey

As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi^{t | c} 14:46, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your Opine on the Nightscream Case Acceptance

I would like to observe that your opine on this case is quite apt and would like to draw your attention to this where where I observed that there are several ArbCom case requests (or moving to very shortly) with Administrator rights abuse and make a suggestion that ArbCom deliver a blanket (no fault) notice reminding all Admins about their duties. Thank you for your time. Hasteur (talk) 14:03, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Bugle: Issue XCIII, December 2013

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Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results
Articles: Last month's new Featured and A-Class content
Book reviews: Carcharoth and Hawkeye7 look at World War I cemeteries and the British Army in World War II
Interview: Less-represented areas of military history – part 2
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Note for the record

Noting here for the record the following edit, reverted here. Carcharoth (talk) 00:07, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Help needed

Hi, I just logged in an incident on ANI. Check this [1]. I feel that the action by the admin in discussion was harsh, sudden and one sided. Whilst I wait for the discussion on ANI to progress, I am placing a request to you if you can review this independently and give me your feedback. Cheers AKS

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Happy holiday season....

	Cheers, pina coladas all round!
	Damn need a few of these after a frenetic year and Xmas. Hope yours is a good one....Cheers, Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 09:50, 25 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Did a bunch of editing to Commonwealth War Graves Commission this afternoon. Care to take a look before I resubmit of GA? --Labattblueboy (talk) 22:20, 28 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Labattblueboy. I've been meaning to get back to that article, but haven't had the time yet. I had a quick look and those edits, and they look great. I think there is more that could be done (see my comments on the talk page) and tidied up, but don't let that stop you resubmitting the article to GA. I will try and do some more editing of the article at some point, but more on the history of the Commission. The current matters I'm less familiar with. You may also want to be aware, if you didn't see it already, of the edits by User:Commonwealth War Graves Commission (see also that user talk page). I do have some questions to ask about editing in and around the WWI topic area in general, can I ask you about that at some point? Carcharoth (talk) 18:47, 29 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the 2014 WikiCup!

Hello Carcharoth, and welcome to the 2014 WikiCup! Your submission page can be found here. The competition will begin at midnight tonight (UTC). There have been a few small changes from last year; the rules can be read in full at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring, and the page also includes a summary of changes. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work, and nominated, in 2014 is eligible for points in the competition- the judges will be checking! As ever, this year's competition includes some younger editors. If you are a younger editor, you are certainly welcome, but we have written an advice page at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Advice for younger editors for you. Please do take a look. Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will make it to round 2. Good luck! J Milburn (talk · contribs), The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 17:32, 31 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi- just to let you know that a copy-paste problem meant that your submission page wasn't created correctly. It's fixed now. Thanks! J Milburn (talk) 14:34, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Carcharoth. You have new messages at Talk:Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act.
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JayJay^{What did I do?} 20:51, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ottomans/Turks

My apologies for coming late to the Ottoman Empire–Turkey party, but I missed the case, and I see the situation does not appear to be settling down, so I hope no one minds if I comment here. Some time ago, I edited in this topic area briefly at Second Transjordan attack on Shunet Nimrin and Es Salt, and at Sinai and Palestine Campaign, and First Transjordan attack on Amman, before fleeing for the relative sanity of wherever it is I am now.

I soon came to understand that these articles were based almost exclusively on one author and followed the text of this document very closely, paragraph by paragraph, and that the editor in question was skilled at paraphrasing. Although the names and dates of the military campaigns are treated differently by different specialists in the field, the titles of the WP articles follow this one source exclusively, and any discussion about renaming the articles always met with resistance, but without any explanation of the underlying reasons. Once I understood this, I saw no reason for my continued participation, as this is a task that can be done by one person.

My take on the editing milieu at that time is pretty much the same as the editors who commented on the just-completed case: that there was one editor willing to take the lead, as far as working COPYVIO and other issues, and who had the consensus of the group to do so. And the upshot of the case, if I am interpreting the smoke signals of the committee correctly, is that rather than vindicating the judgement of the editor in question, the editor has been officially found to have exercised that leadership inappropriately, and the new leadership will now devolve on the WP:AE admins. Now, I have not examined all the diffs of the case in detail, but the ones that I looked at, I could not see the edit warring that was supposed to have taken place, certainly not judging by the 4 reverts/24 hours standard. But like I said, I didn't have time to look at everything in detail.

So as it stands now, the influence of the one user who seemed to have any luck with the situation, and who was probably following policy, has been blunted, and another user with a finite skill set is expected to become a different person. Probably not a good time for bystanders either, if experience is any indicator. No advice, though, not this time. I'm just glad those pages aren't on my watchlist. Regards, —Neotarf (talk) 11:48, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Neotarf, I am recused on this case, so I can't comment on what the committee's intentions are or were here. If you want clarification or to seek any kind of amendment based on your views of the case and the editing history of the parties to that case, you will need to address the committee, not me. I will add a diff to the current amendment request drawing the committee's attention to what you have said here. Actually looking at what you have said, I think I can discern who you are talking about above, and as far as I can tell you are saying the case should have been about something else entirely, rather than what it was about, but is there a reason why you are avoiding naming people? Carcharoth (talk) 01:32, 6 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please comment at Kelvin Tan's ongoing peer review!

You have listed yourself as a peer review volunteer interested in general copyediting. Would you like to support the quest to counter systemic bias on Wikipedia? Would you like to read an interesting article about something different? If so, you are invited to give a thorough review of the article Kelvin Tan, which is about a blind Singaporean Mandopop singer. The article is very short and should not take long to review. Hope you enjoy reviewing it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Thanks! 谢谢！Terima kasih! நன்றி! --J.L.W.S. The Special One (talk) 12:35, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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 So as it stands now, the influence of the one user who seemed to have any luck with the situation, and who was probably following policy, has been blunted, and another user with a finite skill set is expected to become a different person. Probably not a good time for bystanders either, if experience is any indicator.  No advice, though, not this time. I'm just glad those pages aren't on my watchlist. Regards, —[[User:Neotarf|Neotarf]] ([[User talk:Neotarf|talk]]) 11:48, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
+:Neotarf, I am recused on this case, so I can't comment on what the committee's intentions are or were here. If you want clarification or to seek any kind of amendment based on your views of the case and the editing history of the parties to that case, you will need to address the committee, not me. I will add a diff to the current amendment request drawing the committee's attention to what you have said here. Actually looking at what you have said, I think I can discern who you are talking about above, and as far as I can tell you are saying the case should have been about something else entirely, rather than what it was about, but is there a reason why you are avoiding naming people? [[User:Carcharoth|Carcharoth]] ([[User talk:Carcharoth#top|talk]]) 01:32, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
 == Please comment at [[Kelvin Tan]]'s [[Wikipedia:Peer review/Kelvin Tan/archive1|ongoing peer review]]! ==