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Replaceable fair use File:Florin Fodor in Grise Fiord - October 2006.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Florin Fodor in Grise Fiord - October 2006.jpg. I noticed that this file is being used under a claim of fair use. However, I think that the way it is being used fails the first non-free content criterion. This criterion states that files used under claims of fair use may have no free equivalent; in other words, if the file could be adequately covered by a freely-licensed file or by text alone, then it may not be used on Wikipedia. If you believe this file is not replaceable, please:

1. Go to the file description page and add the text {{Di-replaceable fair use disputed|<your reason>}} below the original replaceable fair use template, replacing <your reason> with a short explanation of why the file is not replaceable.
2. On the file discussion page, write a full explanation of why you believe the file is not replaceable.

Alternatively, you can also choose to replace this non-free media item by finding freely licensed media of the same subject, requesting that the copyright holder release this (or similar) media under a free license, or by creating new media yourself (for example, by taking your own photograph of the subject).

If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified how these media fully satisfy our non-free content criteria. You can find a list of description pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, non-free media which could be replaced by freely licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if uploaded before 13 July 2006), per the non-free content policy. If you have any questions, please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Aspects (talk) 17:09, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

This is the text I put in the {{Di-replaceable fair use disputed}} tag

I am surprised by the suggestion this image is replaceable with a free image. (1) Obviously, none of us has a time machine, to go back a dozen years, and capture Mr Fodor's arrival, and release that as a free image. (2) Couldn't an image of a boat like this boat serve as an adequate substitute for this image? Absolutely not. If an RS said Fodor arrived in a specific model of pleasure craft, then a free image of that model of boat would be an adequate substitute. But we don't have that. I can't help thinking that Aspects who applied the tag to challenge this image, didn't really pay attention, when they read the description, and the article. Fodor risked his life in this boat. He traveled something like 2,000 kilometers, in some of the most isolated and dangerous waters on Planet Earth. He had practically run out of fuel, by the time he arrived at his destination. Cuba and Florida are about 140 kilometers apart. The Caribean is warm. Border-jumpers don't have to dodge icebergs. If they fall in, they won't freeze to death in less than half an hour. They can leave and arrive before it gets dark. None of this was true for Fodor's dangerous expedition. Perhaps user Aspect was confused by this much more common and much safer route, and didn't understand how truly dangerous and unprecedented this voyage was? Fodor's attempt to sneak into Canada, from Greenland was unprecedented. No one had ever done it before. No one has done it since. Fodor had a very poor understanding of Canada, of Canada's north. He had no idea how small Grise Fiord is. He had no idea that his arrival would be the very first unscheduled arrival in history. The owner of the local General Store schedules one delivery, by freighter, per year. In 2018, the community gets a couple of visits from very small cruise ships, bearing adventure tourists. But, in 2006, there was nothing like that. Even locals, from other northern communities, fly in. The closest communities are all way to far to make visits by sea. In my opinion, an accurate understanding of his expedition requires the use of this non-free image.

Edit warring

Your recent editing history at Florin Fodor shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:44, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

• Muboshgu, we are all supposed to assume good faith. I am prepared to act on the assumption that our interaction does not represent your best work.
• Okay, are you sure you weren't too hasty in leaving this warning template here?

1. I checked. You escalated to {{Uw-3rr}}, skipping {{Uw-1rr}}.
2. I saw this comment you left at WP:Requests for page protection. I am not a mind-reader. I won't presume I can know, for sure, what you really meant. But, realistically, you do realize this comment looks like I triggered you to get annoyed? Don't the guidelines for administrators recommend only putting on your administrator hat when you have no emotional involvement? Maybe you are super mellow, and you have no emotional involvement, but your comment merely gives the appearance of emotional involvement? Do you think this should have been enough to leave giving me a warning to some other administrator, who hasn't given the appearance of emotional involvement?

   From my perspective you gave me an unexplained refusal, not what I regard as an "answer".

3. Doesn't WP:Edit_warring#Exemptions explicitly list exemptions? Isn't the third exemption: "Reverting actions performed by banned users in violation of their ban, and sockpuppets of banned or blocked users"?

   Can I draw your attention to This SPI? 2605:8d80:687:6af4:468a:6d2d:8181:6d4, the IP that accused me of violating 3RR, is a very near neighbour of 2605:8D80:6A4:7C4E:9883:EC1C:31FB:AED0, 2605:8D80:620:DD8F:B26:F0B9:46AD:93C0, 2605:8D80:621:9057:ABBD:2A7:96DC:3706, 2605:8D80:621:BF5D:30A:9331:CF04:A2FE -- other IPs they have used in the past.

   Is there really any doubt that these IP edits were the work of a sockpuppetmaster?

4. Strictly speaking, four edits that span a period of greater than 24 hours, aren't normally considered a lapse from WP:3RR, right? Yes, I understand sometimes a dogged individual is still warned for 3RR, even if their edits don't, strictly speaking, lapse from 3RR. But I encourage you to reconsider this warning. I think if you look more closely, and fairly, it was very clear I was reverting a vandal, someone who was using sockpuppetry to evade our rules.
5. Yes, I know 2605:8d80:687:6af4:468a:6d2d:8181:6d4's edit summary said "3RR violation". But why would you take a claim like this, at face value, when it was from an IP address, probably being used by a sockpuppetmaster? The time-stamps show that I made four reversions, but over the course of 28 hours. Their edit summaries, while giving a surface appearance of normality, include wild distortions. This edit, for instance, was not reverting vandalism, for any reasonable definition of vandalism. The IP contributor(s) kept deleting both the non-free image, AND Image:Orthographic sisimiut, qaanag, grise fiord.png, an image I created myself, so I know, for an absolute fact, it was published under a free license.

   Maybe you are not really familiar how experienced wikihounders operate. Bogus edit summaries, that give the surface appearance of regularity, are their standard operating procedure.

   Their bogus edit summaries chastised me for not discussing my edits, on Talk:Florin Fodor. I think I did explain myself, on the talk page. Did you simply take those edit summaries at face value, without taking a look at Talk:Florin Fodor for yourself?

   Maybe the use of non-free images is not one of the aspects of the wikipedia where you aren't experienced? The sockpuppet's deceptive edit summaries chastise me to including a non-free image -- without first getting consensus for its use. Well, that is not how non-free images are used. We have strict rules as to when non-free images can be used. But not only do those rules not require a prior consensus, this prior consensus is not actually possible, as non-free images that are not currently in use on an article are subject to speedy deletion.

   Rather, when a contributor thinks there is non-free image that measures up to our non-free inclusion criteria, they (1) fill out a non-free rationale, explaining how it meets our criteria; (2) upload the image; and (3) immediately include the image in the article(s) they claimed justified its use. I repeat, our procedure has no place for seeking consensus first.

   Of course we have procedures for those who disagree whether an image measures up to our non-free inclusion criteria to challenge the image. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz challenged the image's use by snipping it from the article. When they snipped it in 2017 they justified the snip by saying it shouldn't be used in the infobox. I've never heard of that restriction, but I satisfied their stated concern by moving it out of the infobox. The second time they snipped the image, they didn't really explain why they removed it. So I asked them to return to the talk page, and offer an explanation. HW did not return, and offer a policy based explanation for their excision, so, seven days later, I restored the image to the article, and said that was what I had done.

   Articles are only supposed to be {{prod}}ed once. I think that, after my call for explanation, on the talk page, subsequent concerns over the image have to escalate, just like how a prod is challenged by a full AFD, I think tagging the image is a next logical step for challengers. Aspects placed that tag, a completely policy compliant choice.

   When an article is being discussed at AFD, we would all recognize that challengers who chose to blank the article, or totally gut the article, instead of just offering their opinion, in the AFD discussion, were committing vandalism. I think if you consult other administrators, experienced with dealing with non-free images, they will back me up, that, when a non-free image has a challenge tag, excising it from the article(s) where it is being used is disruptive. I offered my rebuttal to the challenge tag. I think if you consult other administrators, experienced with dealing with non-free images, they will tell you that, while the challenge tag is in place, additional individuals with challenges to the image's use should offer their further arguments, on the image's talk page, or by placing a different non-free-image-challenge tag, on the image.

   That is why I described the IP's excisions as vandalism.

   Now that another administrator has offered an official opinion on the challenge tag, I think the next step would be WP:REVDEL.

   I am going to repeat I think it was a mistake, on your part, to take the edit summaries of a sockpuppetmaster at face value.

6. Doesn't the warning template you placed explicitly suggest "In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection." I tried requesting semi-protection, and the administrator who reviewed my request, uh you, turned down my request, without, it seems to me, any meaningful explanation.

   I am not experienced at page protection. I think this was my very first request. In my opinion, every question, every disagreement, is a teachable moment.

   You might think it was obvious why you turned down my request? nothing is obvious.

   In my opinion, we should be able to rely on our administrators to set a good example to less experienced contributors. In my opinion setting a good example implies taking reasonable steps to make sure their acts and comments are understood.

   My first experience with an article being locked from editing was also the first time an administrator threatened to place a block on me. I made a good faith addition to an article, one that I thought was neutrally written, and properly referenced, only to have it promptly excised, with a missing or inadequate edit summary. I genuinely thought that excision was vandalism, and restored my addition, saying "revert unexplained excision". The other party reverted me, and locked the article so only administrators could edit it. They kept it locked, and refused to explain what they were doing, until they had put in place their preferred version. They then threatened to block me. What exactly would I have to do, to trigger that block? Unclear. I couldn't get them to answer that question. They didn't offer any kind of explanation, on the article's talk page, while it was locked. And the post lock explanation was pretty weak. It turned out they weren't very good at web searches. They thought the only references that backed up what I contributed were from Alex Jones Infowar site, or one of its clandestine mirrors. But they failed to find several legitimate RS completely unrelated Infowar. I had this threat of a block hanging over me, without knowing, specifically, what was going to trigger it, with the administrator's justification for the block deeply flawed. (This was about 10 years ago, and I had never heard of infowars.)

   Administrators really have to be both careful and respectful when they issue warnings. In my opinion, it is a huge mistake when the warning is based on a misconception. In my opinion, it is a huge mistake when the warning is not clear as to what the administrator thinks should trigger it.

7. You removed updates about the excisions of the image from the article, that I left on File:Florin_Fodor_in_Grise_Fiord_-_October_2006.jpg, with the edit summary "this is also inappropriate behavior". Okay, as above, I am going to assume you aren't really familiar with how we deal with non-free images.

   This is not the first image I have uploaded where someone has inappropriately excised the image from the relevant articles. Another image I considered valuable was excised when someone excised the image from the article shortly before the challenge tag expired. Based on that experience I decided it was critical to inform the administrator dealing with the challenge tag that parties had excising it from the article. I don't want to see non-free images that would have successfully passed their challenges being deleted because someone made sure they didn't satisfy the criteria of being in use in an appropriate article, right before the decision was made. So, no, I think your comment that my updates were inappropriate is incorrect.

8. Just to be clear -- this warning you left for me here -- you were threatening to block me, if I made further edits to Florin Fodor, correct?

   As above, I think it would be a mistake for you to issue me any administrator warnings, after your apparently emotional comment.

   But, when an administrator issues warnings that they will consider blocking an individual, don't you think it would be better if those warnings were more specific than the one you seem to have issued?

   You realize that the sockpuppet also repeatedly excised Image:Orthographic sisimiut, qaanag, grise fiord.png with no legitimate justification, whatsoever? If your threat of a block was legitimate, would it have applied to restoration of this map, that I made personally, specifically for this article, and which I know has no copyright issues?

   Now that another administrator has officially declined the challenge tag, if the next step for a challenger is REVDEL, would your threat to block me, if I restored the image, still stand?

AGF. I am happy to act on the assumption that your response(s) to my requests for semi-protection, and other comments and edits, in response to my comments and edits, do not represent your best work.

Years ago I wrote a user essay on apologies. That is still my position. People hate feeling forced to apologize so much I would rather forgo being apologized to. I do, however, strongly appreciate some kind of acknowledgement that the other party recognizes they erred -- necessary, in my opinion, to re-establish trust.

I do my best to own up when I recognize I was in error. I do so even when it is unpleasant. I think I do an OK job acknowledging when I recognize my mistakes. And I would like to think I could expect the same from my wikipedia collaborators. Geo Swan (talk) 00:50, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

P.S. I will be very disappointed if your response is a TLDR, or any variation there-of. Geo Swan (talk) 00:50, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Rahaf Zina for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Rahaf Zina is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. TheGracefulSlick (talk) 03:02, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Hamidullah Khan -- a youth held in Bagram.jpg

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Nomination of Abdullah Yahia Yousf Al Shabli for deletion

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Speedy deletion nomination of Habib Ullah

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• It is an "attack page", and appears to be primarily intended to disparage or threaten its subject. This includes biographies of living people that are unsourced and entirely negative in tone. (See section G10 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please do not make statements attacking people or groups of people. Wikipedia has a strict policy against personal attacks; attack pages and files are not tolerated by Wikipedia and are speedily deleted. Users who continue to create or repost such pages and images will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.
• It appears to be about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), individual animal, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. (See section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Vinegarymass911 (talk) 21:31, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

• Deleted by RHaworth, about an hour after it was tagged. As I noted on User_talk:RHaworth#Your assistance please..., I don't particularly remember this article, when I started it, or when I last worked on it. I requested a copy of my last revision be sent, by email. Geo Swan (talk) 22:09, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
  • (Some?) of the history of Habib Ullah has been restored. It shows my last edit was to turn Habib Ullah into a redirect, in 2007. It looks like there are some deleted edits, where, presumably, somebody may have then turned the redirect into an attack page. I asked the tagger to consider whether they should not have left the heads-up on the contributor who turned the redirect into an attack page. Geo Swan (talk) 22:43, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Hikmat Nafi Shaukat for deletion

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. TheGracefulSlick (talk) 22:20, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

New Page Review Newsletter No.10

Hello Geo Swan, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing

• Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled

• While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

News

• The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.

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Orphaned non-free image File:Kalafani youtube recruiting video.jpg

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Stale draft

Greetings! I've been combing through stale drafts recently, and happened upon one of yours: User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/not ready yet/Bacha Khan (Guantanamo captive 529). Unless you have some reason you would like to keep it, would you be willing to either blank it or request it be speedily deleted by adding {{db-u1}}? Thanks! —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 20:22, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Stale draft

Greetings! I've been combing through stale drafts recently, and happened across one of yours: User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/Brook DeWalt. As you do not appear to be currently using it, I was wondering if you'd be willing to either blank it or request its deletion by tagging it with {{db-u1}}. Thanks! —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 20:58, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

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Please be more careful

Please be aware that someone editing anonymously is not a reason to revert their edits. Please ensure you assume good faith. Continuing to revert edits based on this can be grounds for blocking as it is against the rules and spirit of Wikipedia. It may be prudent to read about our community prior to continuing to edit as competency is required. You can also visit the tea house if you have further questions. 2605:8D80:686:AFAA:AB44:F871:7412:80AF (talk) 02:14, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

• For the record 2605:8D80:686:AFAA:AB44:F871:7412:80AF resorts to using anonymous IP addresses to evade their well deserved indefinite block.
• Yes, I did make a series of reversions of another anonymous IP -- who was continuing to make horrible racist edits, in spite of a series of warnings.
• This edit reverted the SPA's substitution of "execution" with POV "torture-murder". It reverted the frankly racist passage "...The details confirmed the opinions of many that the Indians were irreparably savage..."
• In this edit I reverted the SPA's indefensible insertion of "savage" prior to Shawnee. This was both racist and unrefenced.
• In this edit I reverted "...pointed up the baleful effect of warlike, caste-ridden Prussia on the German character..." also racist and unreferenced. Geo Swan (talk) 03:28, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Thanks For The Heads Up

Thanks for the heads up. Yes, World Lamest Critic has been (or was) following me around for sometime, obsessed with me, doing everything they could to get rid of articles I'd created. This person was seriously obsessed, it was unreal. No administrator did anything about it though. My nickname for them was World's Lamest Sockpuppet. I also got a message once from Wikipedia that someone was trying to access my account but failed to use the correct password several times, someone was trying to hack my account on Wikipedia. If I can go back and find out what their original account was I will let you know. Neptune's Trident (talk) 15:19, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

(edit conflict)

• Thanks. WLC left a faux "friendly reminder" on the commons. Geo Swan (talk) 16:00, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

• Thanks for letting me know about this and the "friendly reminder". By the way, I'm not J.C. Maçek as some editor on here seems to believe. Neptune's Trident (talk) 20:39, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

• P.S. It says who this user is right on their talk page: Govindaharihari

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:World%27s_Lamest_Critic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Govindaharihari

Just letting you know. Neptune's Trident (talk) 15:28, 17 May 2018 (UTC)o

• Wow! That WLC! Here he has the nerve to pretend he didn't write "I don't mean this in an insulting way, but do A you happen to have a spectrum disorder? It may explain some of our communication difficulties."
• What does the first sentence of spectrum disorder say? It says it is a "mental disorder".
• What does the first sentence of mental disorder say? It says "A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning."

• The wikipedia's civility rules and conventions tell us to try to confine discussions to editorial issues, and refrain from insulting comments. At Wikipedia_talk:No_personal_attacks#NPA question [1] WLC was explicitly told his comments seemed insulting. WLC even has the nerve to claim that, somehow, I am the one who is insulting other people, by describing spectrum disorder as a mental illness.

• My general policy on how to respond to rudeness and persone seral attacks is to do my best to take the high road, and not "respond in kind". I figure the project is best served when at least one party to a disagreement remains civil. Occasionally difficult people will return to civility when one is consistently civil. I did my best to not respond in kind to WLC's abuse, and I think I did an okay job.

• But does WP:AGF only apply to other wikipedia contributors? Now that they have been indefinitely blocked do I have any remaining obligation to try to AGF about WLC? Geo Swan (talk) 23:25, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

• Holy moly! Well, I'd say a certain editor (and I don't mean you, Geo Swan) is really going off the deep end, only in my opinion. He (or she, they) really is obsessed. Crazy. Neptune's Trident (talk) 03:14, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

• P.S. Note to Geo Swan and other third parties World's Lamest Critic has also been Wikistalking me as well for some time, following me around Wikipedia and messaging me and accusing me of being someone who I am not. Not sure if there's anything that can be done about this but I just wanted to make it known. Neptune's Trident (talk) 21:02, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

• P.S.S. Note to Geo Swan and other third parties, World's Lamest Critic left me another rather ominous "you've been naughty again..." message here. Neptune's Trident (talk) 23:14, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

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ACTRIAL:

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Rachel Giese

I use Twinkle (an automated service) to initiate AFD discussions, which is supposed to automatically notify the relevant parties. So no, there was no wrongdoing or oversight on my part — if you failed to get a notification, then Twinkle had a technical hiccup of some kind that I have no control over or responsibility to answer for. But it's precisely because such things can happen that you also have the personal responsibility to watchlist your own work so that you're not depending solely on external notifications to be aware of such things.

It's certainly possible that Rachel Giese would be notable enough for a Wikipedia article if it had been referenced properly — but it's unconditionally true that the sources you used to support the article were not ones that got her over WP:GNG. A person does not qualify for a Wikipedia article by sourcing it to her own staff profiles on the websites of her own employers, or to pieces of her own writing about other things, or to Q&A interviews in which she's the speaker and not the subject, or to her own book's publication details on Google Books — a person gets a Wikipedia article by being the subject of reliable source coverage in media, and thye only source you added which met that standard was covering her in the context of buying a house with her wife, not in the context of anything relevant to her notability as a journalist.

The question of whether she clears a notability standard or not is not about what the article says she did — it's about how well you can or can't reference what it says she did, and you didn't reference it the correct way to make it includable. So, yeah, I'd say you have a bit of a blind spot about what it takes to demonstrate that a person is notable enough for a Wikipedia article — because none of the references you used to support that version were notability-supporting ones at all.

Regardless, the page will be at User:Geo Swan/Rachel Giese for you momentarily. Bearcat (talk) 21:55, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the userification.

WRT watchlists, the WMF is a cash-rich non-profit. They employ a team of software developers, who, sadly, release pointless, terrible "wizards", rather than improvements that would really help improve the project. I am one of the most prolific contributors, and I outgrew watchlists a decade ago. I had edited so many articles that going through my watchlist, once a day, would take more time than I had allocated for a whole day's contributions. The WMF developers should have provided us with multiple watchlists, and improved ways of looking at our watchlists. On my wishlist would be a way to be shown articles from my watchlist, when they were edited by someone else -- but only if my last edit was also recent, ie yesterday, or the last week, or the last month.

WRT your comments on notability and blindspots -- sorry I have a committee meeting tonight, so I can't reply to those comments satisfactorily now. I will reply soon. Geo Swan (talk) 22:25, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

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James Duane

Did you not bother to look at the article before disambiguating? The Continental Congressman and the Mayor of New York are the same person! bd2412 T 16:23, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Are they BD2412? It is important for all of us, you and I and everyone else, to remember we are subject to normal human fallibility. The project works best if we remember the good faith mistakes of others are forgiveable. I consider your good faith mistakes forgiveable. I encourage you to accept that the good faith mistakes of other people are forgiveable. Geo Swan (talk) 16:38, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

It is clearly stated in the first line of the article. I'll be the first to forgive good faith mistakes, but more care should be taken when making the highly disruptive step of unilaterally and without discussion moving a heavily linked page. Going forward, you should probably just use WP:RM to propose such moves. If there had been a discussion, someone would have caught this before it became an issue. bd2412 T 20:28, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

• BD2412 just to be clear, are you saying you don't believe my mistake was made in good faith?

You used the phrase "going forward". I started going forward, and disambiguating references to James Duane, to point to James Duane (Continental Congress). It looks like it didn't occur to you to tell me you moved the article back to James Duane. So, the following good faith edits of mine were a waste of time: [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13].

The wikipedia relies on a volunteer workforce. Even if we feel angry at another contributor I suggest it is best to communicate clearly with them. Nothing is improved by withholding information from them, so they waste their time, even if, for the sake of argument, we think they wasted our time.

I have an essay on apologies. Please read it if you think I should feel obliged to apologize. Geo Swan (talk) 22:57, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

I am sure that your edits were made in good faith, but the move indicates an insufficient investigation of the subject matter on which it was premised. I was not aware that you were fixing links to the page, and cannot possibly inform every editor who might be doing so, given the breadth of the disambiguation community. However, this is precisely the reason why editors moving pages with substantial numbers of incoming links need to be sure that they are on the right track in so doing. Any editor can revert an undiscussed move, without notice to anyone else. Consider WP:Chesterton's fence. My time was wasted too, here. I started fixing these links, and it very quickly occurred to me that it would be very unusual for Wikipedia to be missing an article on a New York City Mayor. It only took a short time to research the question, but that was still time that I had to spend on it. I don't expect an apology. I expect that you will, in the future, apply that kind of forward thinking to these kinds of situations. bd2412 T 23:10, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

As a postscript, I think that you are overall a very good editor, and don't mean to detract from that opinion here. bd2412 T 23:28, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Fireboat article moved to draft

Another editor moved your article to draft space. You can find it at Draft:Unnamed fireboat, North Kingstown, RI I think the fireboat is named "Marine 5". Eastmain (talk • contribs) 10:45, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

I still don't understand why you wanted it moved from draft space to user space. You complain of a wikistalker, but I don't see evidence of a wikistalker. Maybe a vandal, but the usual way to deal with vandals is to revert and protect. I still don't understand. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:07, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

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I need you help to save my first article Spandana Palli

I tried my best to get all the references and follow all the guidelines of wikipedia but I am being targeted from different sources. and as a beginner I am unable to save my article.Requesting to kindly save my first article and so that I will have trust that beginner can also contribute in wikipedia.

Am2623 (talk) 18:36, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

• Commented at Talk:Spandana Palli. Geo Swan (talk) 20:17, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Infobox at Te Kukupa

I added an infobox to Te Kukupa, but I left most of the lines blank because I didn't have the information. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 16:40, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

• Thanks! Geo Swan (talk) 01:13, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

User:Geo Swan/Eyad Alrababah

I'm going to delete this as a BLP violation. The closest these sources come to calling him an "Al-Qaida associate" is in that Fox article, which is sensationalist and reports only hearsay--and that is the source for your suggestion of continued importance, with "some commentators and legislators continued to call for his case to be further investigated", citing a few ex-FBI agents with a chip on their shoulder. The NY Daily News doesn't help you much either. So, case closed, suspect not guilty, no notability, and "routinely characterizes [sic] as an 'al Qaeda associate'" is simply not true. Drmies (talk) 22:10, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Drmies, I have read the draft, and do not consider it a BLP violation. I think he is essentially a public figure. The actual crimes of which he was convicted are minor, but nottheir obvious implications. He is discussed in two books, one of which, written by a NYT reporter with an article on WP, received a significant mainstream prize, , and the other from a less reliable Fox reporter, but published by a well known reliable mainstream publisher. The draft is sourced from articles in mainstream major newspapers--Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, & others. DGG ( talk ) 00:37, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

I strongly disagree and urge you to look at which parts were sourced to the Fox article, for instance. And "discussed" in those books--they are mere mentions. Drmies (talk) 00:42, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Bad faith?

...a comment that implied bad faith, on my part

There's a reason for that. Hint: your track record.

A reminder -- as you surely need one -- that the guideline is "assume good faith in the absence of evidence to the contrary". Perhaps you should pay more attention to all the warnings YOU'VE received over the years. --Calton | Talk 01:03, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

• Calton's comment, above, seems to be in response to this comment I left at Talk:St. Catherine University#explanation.
• When I find myself interacting with individuals who I find confrontational, I do my best to keep my cool, and give mild answers, that show respect for AGF, for various reasons, I have explained many times. I think I did an okay job here.
• In my most recent comment in that thread I directed their attention to User:Geo Swan/opinions/Pick one, an essay that suggests that individuals who are reckless about other people's feelings, undermine their credibility when they claim their feelings are being hurt. Geo Swan (talk) 23:12, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

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Hi, I've just blocked that IP editor who was reverting your changes. Please let me know if they turn up again. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 04:40, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

• Thanks! Will do. Geo Swan (talk) 15:38, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

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• This NFCC image was replaced by a free image. Geo Swan (talk) 22:33, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. ()

Hello Geo Swan, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules

• New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
• Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
• Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.

Editathons

• Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

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About the Fireboat article

Hi, Geo! A comment about your article Fireboats of San Diego: the section heading “Port of San Diego” is misleading. The Port of San Diego is a quasi-governmental agency established in 1962 to serve all of San Diego Bay. The history that you are quoting there predates the creation of the Port and appears to be about the City of San Diego’s firefighting, not the Port’s. In fact the history you are quoting is from the city’s Fire-Rescue Department history page. --MelanieN (talk) 00:36, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

AfroCine: Join us for the Months of African Cinema in October!

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Humud Dakhil Humud Sa'id Al-((Jad'an

You created the an article at the title Humud Dakhil Humud Sa'id Al-((Jad'an in May 2006, moving it to Humud Dakhil Humud Sa'id Al Jad'an 1 minute later. The article was redirected to List of Saudi detainees at Guantanamo Bay in 2011. Do you think the original title still (with the "((") has value? If not you may want to tag it for G7 speedy deletion. Thryduulf (talk) 13:37, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

• Thanks for your interest.

I think you are suggesting that this is an implausible redirect...

On April 20th, and May 15th, 2006, the DoD published its first two official lists of captives held in Guantanamo. Prior to the publication of these lists the DoD refused to identify the men and boys.

The first list was of the 668 men and boys who had had a Combatant Status Review Tribunal convened to review whether they were an "enemy combatant". The second list was supposed to be a comprehensive list of everyone held in Guantanamo.

Almost 100 individuals had their names spelled inconsistently on the two lists. Wow. How did that happen.

This man was one of over a dozen men who had parentheses in the DoD's official version of his name.

So, I disagree it was, it is, an implausible redirect.

Thousands of newspapers republished those official lists. Anyone looking at old references from 2006 could come across the old, apparently implausible names, and want to know who it really refered to.

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 13:49, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Ok, fair enough - it is a plausible redirect then (contrary to my first thought). I'll copy this to the article talk page to enlighten anyone else who stumbles across it. Thryduulf (talk) 13:55, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Geo Swan, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news

• The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.

As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.

• There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks for more info to see if you can help out.

Other

• A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.

Moving to Draft and Page Mover

• Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
• If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
• Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
• The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js^(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which has been dedicated to improving contents that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

This is a global online edit-a-thon, which is happening in at least 5 language editions of Wikipedia, including the English Wikipedia! Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section, if you haven't done so already.

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Nomination of Dawa wa Irshad for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Dawa wa Irshad is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dawa wa Irshad until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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• I recommended redirection, and the article was, eventually, redirected. Geo Swan (talk) 17:55, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Geo Swan, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

Community Wishlist Proposal

• There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
• Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!

Project updates

• ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
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Desmond Cole

As has been explained to you before, GNG is not simply a case of counting up the number of media hits that exist and then extending a free notability pass to everybody who happens to surpass an arbitrary number: GNG has tests for the kind of coverage that does or doesn't exist, the geographic range of coverage that does or doesn't exist, the depth of coverage that does or doesn't exist, and the context of what the person is getting coverage for.

Of the 12 links you provided, many of them still represent local coverage, so they don't necessarily prove that I was wrong to assess his notability as "local to a single city". So let's go over why most of them still don't wash as establishing that Cole warrants a presence in an international encyclopedia:

1. Global News, "Desmond Cole on his experiences with racial discrimination in Toronto" - This is from Global Toronto, not from the national network, and a person's notability cannot be established by interview sourcing in which they're speaking about themselves — it can only be demonstrated by sources in which the person is being spoken or written about, in the third person, by people other than themselves.
2. Yahoo - Your link does not take me to any source about Desmond Cole, but to the front splash page of today's Yahoo News headlines, such as "Obama delivers sharpest takedown of Trump" and "Saudi Arabia again changes its story on Khashoggi killing". And at any rate, Yahoo is a news aggregator, not a media outlet in its own right, so it's not an establisher of notability under GNG.
3. Your Morning - This is a short blurb, not substantive coverage for the purposes of counting as a GNG point, and it's a blurb again wrapping a video in which he's talking about himself rather than being spoken or written about in the third person.
4. Hamilton Spectator - The fact that a Torstar-owned paper, in a city only a short distance away from Toronto and still partially within Toronto's local media market, reaggregated a piece written by a Toronto Star journalist and first published by the Toronto Star does not constitute proof that his coverage is nationalizing. And since the whole basis of the coverage precisely hinges on Desmond Cole's association with the Toronto Star, the Torstar family of publications are not independent coverage for the purposes of establishing notability in that context.
5. The Globe and Mail, "Toronto Mayor John Tory to introduce motion to end carding in the city" - This source is not about Desmond Cole for the purposes of helping to establish his notability, it just briefly namechecks his existence at the very end of an article about something else.
6. CTV Toronto, "My responsibility is community safety" - Local source, in which the only mention of Desmond Cole anywhere in the entire page is in the headline of a different story in the "other headlines" sidebar; the actual text of the article itself is not only not about him, it doesn't even mention him at all.
7. CTV Toronto, "Activist interrupts police board meeting, demanding carding data destroyed" - This one's actually about him, granted, but it's local coverage, thus failing to demonstrate that I was wrong in my assessment of his notability as being localized.
8. Huffington Post - WP:BLOGS are not reliable sources. Huffington Post can be used as a convenience link when it's reaggregating wire service coverage originating with Canadian Press or Associated Press or something of that ilk — but it's the fact that the coverage originated with CP or AP that it's reliable, not the fact that it's on HuffPo. When the content originates with one of the HuffPo's own staff bloggers, however, that is not evidence of notability at all.
9. Global News, "New carding rules approved by Toronto police board, historic data will still be retained" - Not about Desmond Cole, but just glancingly namechecks his existence in coverage about something else.
10. The Globe and Mail, "Desmond Cole’s feature on carding lit a fuse under the city’s elite, but why did it take so long?" — The first source in the entire list that actually starts to count for something.
11. National Post - Not about Desmond Cole, but just glancingly namechecks his existence a single time in coverage about something else.
12. Maclean's — Again, more substantive than most of the others.

So the only two sources that are doing anything at all in terms of establishing that he's notable enough for a Wikipedia article are Maclean's and the second G&M hit. But if the context of what they're covering him for doesn't pass any subject-specific inclusion criteria, then two good media hits are not enough coverage to get him over the "notable just because media coverage exists" bar — and none of the other hits are getting him over any bar at all, because they all fail one or more of the depth, range, context or independence tests. Again, GNG is not just an arbitrary number of text matches on the person's name — it tests for the type, depth, range and context of coverage that does or doesn't exist, not just the number of possible footnotes. Bearcat (talk) 16:27, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Citations

I don't think you will get anywhere convincing people to stop formatting citations in their preferred methods, I suggest you try out the enhanced diff engine at User:Cacycle/wikEdDiff and see if that helps. Personally I find the diffs it gives are much clearer. — Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 21:07, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

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• This warning is from a perennial wikistalker, who is evading a well-deserved indefinite block. It is, IMO, nonsense... Geo Swan (talk) 19:59, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

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See also the list of top 100 reviewers.

Less good news, and an appeal for some help

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• Wow this wikistalker is annoying. They have been harassing me for two years.

They don't have a good understanding of the wikipedia's policies, but they have mastered the vandal trick of crafting comments and edit summaries that give the surface appearance of reasonableness, when not examined in detail, but which are complete bullshit.

I addressed their most recent vandalism at the most recent SPI I initiated... Geo Swan (talk) 00:32, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

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• Result was no-consensus... Geo Swan (talk) 18:09, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

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It is my recollection that I blanked that talk page, or trimmed that material, shortly after a concern was raised. That's my tacit acknowledgement I recognized tunnel vision led me to a lapse from policy. Geo Swan (talk) 18:08, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Talk:Suki Waterhouse

I did an official request for comment for Miss Waterhouse because I have been going back and forth about this for years now. I see you’re in agreement with me that the Doodlebob Wolf guy’s goal post moving is gettting ridiculous as if he owns the page or has a vendetta against her for dating a famous actor. Anyway, I invite you to join so we can all discuss this once and for all. I’m prepared to come with more sources too.Trillfendi (talk) 02:48, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

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Marriott International

1. we did not use 30em any more

2. Either you move all ref to |refs=, or vice versa. You put a single ref to |refs=. Matthew hk (talk) 01:54, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

And here is the real guide: Wikipedia:References dos and don'ts and real policy Wikipedia:Citing sources. Please point out the consensus to use only one ref in |refs=, as well as it can be concise if deleting the line breaker Matthew hk (talk) 02:12, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

matthew_hk and I both left notes on one another's talk pages at the same time. He subsequently cut and paste the comment I left on his talk page here. My talk page, my rules. I am merely going to link to my comment, and trim their cutting and pasting.t

• With regard to "30em"... did I place that? No.

With regard to your link to Wikipedia:References dos and don'ts... You didn't say why you linked to it. The fourth point under the "Do" section reads Use a consistent reference style within each article. So, what does Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Citation_style say?

While citations should aim to provide the information listed above, Wikipedia does not have a single house style, though citations within any given article should follow a consistent style. A number of citation styles exist including those described in the Wikipedia articles for Citation, APA style, ASA style, MLA style, The Chicago Manual of Style, Author-date referencing, the Vancouver system and Bluebook.

As per my comment on your talk page, "A number of citation styles exist..."

I am sorry, but I am concerned you didn't show the basic collegiality of reading my comment.

As I explained in my comment, using {{cite}} templates inline, and placing them in the reference section are merely two different ways of using the {{cite}} template style of referencing.

I suggest you take a closer look at Wikipedia:Citing sources#Variation in citation methods. Look particularly at the caution it urges to mess around with stuff that works, for merely esthetic reasons.

• With regard to your link to Wikipedia:Citing sources, you didn't specify which passages from that wikidocument you thought were relevant here.

• Yes, these documents should be rewritten so they don't confuse people, like you, who don't know that other citation styles beyond the {{cite}} style exist. I continue to think that the advice I left on your talk page was very good advice. I continue to think that you had an honest good faith misunderstanding. I continue to think you honestly thought you should rewrite perfectly adequate references, for esthetic reasons...

...but you shouldn't. So, please stop, OK? Geo Swan (talk) 03:03, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

• What a difference a couple of years make! I checked Matthew's contribution history, and he started contributing in 2006, about two years after I started to contribute here. In 2004 no articles used any kind of citation style. In 2005 early more awkward citation styles took an early lead. But by 2006 the generally superior {{cite}} style had larger supplanted those earlier styles to such an extent that, even though Matthew has made almost as many edits as I have, he seems to have never become aware of those earlier styles. Geo Swan (talk) 04:27, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
  • I used the thank button on the revision control page for Marriott International after Matthew made this correction. We are all fallible, and we will all make mistakes. There should be no shaming of others when they make a good faith mistake.

    I am leaving a note about this edit as I see it reinforcing my position. The correction in this edit will be highlighted by the revision control system. However, if Matthew had both moved the location of the reference, and made the correction, at the same time, it would obfuscate the fact that a fix was made to the reference.

    How could this be a problem? Someone -- possibly me -- might decide that the reference and some or all of the new material I added, also belonged in a different article. I might edit the version I left, to cut and paste material into that other article, doing so without realizing the reference contained an errant line feed. The result would be pasting in the version of the reference prior to the correction.

    I think this is an argument for not fixing things that aren't broken, and not unnecessarily moving references that work fine where they are. Geo Swan (talk) 21:28, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

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Anon performed an image-ectomy

Hi I replied to your Symbiogenesis edit. I don't know how Wikipedia etiquette works so I'm sorry if I'm breaking all the conventions.Shumpeim (talk) 23:04, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

• Shumpeim, I think the learning curve is a lot steeper now than it used to be, when I started. Please, don't worry about it.

I mean to ask the guy who uploaded the first image whether their image was redrawn, from scratch, using the information from an image in the Campbell book. It has a funny filename, ending in .svg.pgn.

The image may not be properly licensed. Geo Swan (talk) 23:13, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello Geo Swan,

News

• The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.

Discussions of interest

• Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
• {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
• A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
• There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.

Reminders

• NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.

NPP Tools Report

• Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
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Will Firth

Translation values:

• “It’s a tribute to the agility and perseverance of translator Will Firth that Krleža’s incendiary prose strikes home with such fluent power.”- Jonathan Bousfield reviewing Miroslav Krleža’s Journey to Russia on Stray Satellite, 2018
• “A special place must also be accorded to Will Firth, who has translated the Bosnian original into an English laden with unique atmosphere, at once exotically local yet recognizably universal throughout.”- Andrew Singer reviewing Faruk Šehić's Quiet Flows the Una in World Literature Today, 2016
• “Our Man in Iraq may well prove to be one of those rare cases where something is actually gained in translation.”- Emily Donaldson reviewing Robert Perišić's novel in The Star, 2013

--Ванилица (talk) 06:53, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

• I left my reply on their user talk page. But not before reading Our Man In Iraq by Robert Perisic: Review in the Star. Geo Swan (talk) 13:03, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Salafi University for deletion

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A barnstar for you!

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• It seems I was leaving quality control volunteer SSSB a request for caution while they were leaving this boilerplate for incompetent newbies. Geo Swan (talk) 02:04, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Mail

You have some. Kafka Liz (talk) 22:18, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

• Thanks! Geo Swan (talk) 02:00, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour

Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour does not track the preliminary longlists at all. It never has before, and sources largely don't exist by which any of that content could be added now — and there's no legitimate reason for 2019 to be given unique treatment different than any of the preceding 70 years. Until the final shortlist gets issued, we simply do not care about the initial longlist at all, especially if you have to depend on Orillia's own community hyperlocal to actually source the longlist because no major media care about it either. Bearcat (talk) 16:34, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Well there is https://www.leacock.ca/pdfs/2019_Leacock_Medal_Long_List_v2.pdf which looks oficial to me. Secondarywaltz (talk) 16:59, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

We don't care about the award's own self-published official press release at all. We require media to care enough to repackage the press release as news reporting before we care enough to add it to our article, so media reporting always trumps the award's own self-published content in terms of appropriateness for use as a source — the organization's press release is only appropriate for use if no media reportage can be found at all to verify the statement, and even then the question would need to be asked about whether the content needed to be included in the article at all if the press release was the only source that could be found. The source itself isn't the crux of issue in the first place — the issue is that there's no serious reason for the article to document the preliminary longlist at all. Bearcat (talk) 17:30, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

• Bearcat, you may be correct that, in past years, generally only the shortlisted candidates were listed.

  But the other issue, adding references and content in two separate edits... When a reference is relevant to multiple articles I sometimes take it from the article where it was originaly used, and add it to one or more of the other articles where it is relevant. I have done this in two stages many times, hundreds, maybe thousands... I am sure I am far from the only contributor to do so.

  Do you have an actual policy document in mind that discourages good faith contributors from adding references and content in two stages, in reasonably quick succession? If not, how likely is it that you would consider being less hasty to pull the trigger? Geo Swan (talk) 17:14, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

George, perhaps you should change the reference to the official one, rather than secondhand information. Secondarywaltz (talk) 17:29, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Firstly, it's not my job to simply assume that you're adding the content and the reference in two separate steps — especially if you add the reference first, in a format that's not consistent with the referencing format being used by the rest of the article, and then significantly lag in terms of adding the actual content for long enough that I have time to catch the addition of an unused reference. If you want to two-step it rather than adding the content and the referencing at the same time, then you need to add the content first and then the reference, not vice versa, because it's not my job to read your mind — I can only judge what I see that you have done, not what you're thinking about doing in the future.

And secondly, you haven't actually given a reason why 2019 needs to be unique in having the preliminary longlist added when we don't have (and can't find adequate sources to add) the preliminary longlists for any other year prior to 2019. All you did is acknowledge that I was correct in saying that it's never been done before, and then move on to your other complaint without actually providing a reason why 2019 needs to start doing something different than what's been done before. Bearcat (talk) 17:30, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Bearcat, you and I are both long-term contributors. So, don't you think that, whatever our disagreements, we should try to show some basic respect to one another?

With regard to whether the most recent year should have the eleven initial candidates, or only the shortlisted candidates, when they are chosen... I already acknowledged you might be correct. FWIW 1990 lists ten candidates. Did they shortlist ten books in 1990? Okay. I don't care.

With regard to your comment that the reference I added was "not consistent with the reference formatting being used".

Woah! There are some quality control volunteers who mistakenly think policy authorizes them to unnecessarily rewrite references in a manner that they find aesthetically pleasing. They generally misunderstand that the wikidocuments that warn contributors against mixing or changing "citation styles" refer to mixing the {{cite}} style references with the incompatible Harvard style references. Both inline and list-defined references are completely compatible variants of the <ref>{{cite}}</ref> styles.

Even if, for the sake of argument, it really did represent a policy problem to mix in the first list-defined reference into an article where every other reference was a list-defined {{cite}} reference, how closely did you look at the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour? It contains an inconsistent mix of inline {{cite}} references and inline [http:... title] references. So, even from a super-purist interpretation, that new list-defined {{cite}} references can't be added to an article that had consistently used inline {{cite}} references up to that time, THIS article wasn't previously consistent.

With regard to "significant lag"... you reverted my new reference just five minutes after I added it.

I started User:Geo Swan/Uzma Jalaluddin about eight months ago. I started a google news alert on her at the same time. That news alert had fetched me over 30 hits - instances where RS wrote about her or her book.

So, I decided that her nomination might be the moment where I could move the draft to article space without claims of TOOSOON.

As above, I added the Leacock reference I added to the draft to this article. You say you are not a mind-reader? I am not a mind-reader either. Does the table have an explicit title, saying which candidates are listed there, as below?

Winners and shortlisted candidates of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour

Year	Author	Title	Reference

No, it does not... and then there are the 10 candidates listed for 1990.

So, Ali Bryan, Hadley Dyer, Uzma Jalaluddin, Cathal Kelly, Martin Myers, all currently lack articles. I am starting a draft at User:Geo Swan/Ali Bryan, which will use the same reference I added here, and I plan to do so for Hadley Dyer, Cathal Kelly, Martin Myers.

So, even if I agreed with your concern, I would not rewind until I had started User:Geo Swan/Hadley Dyer, User:Geo Swan/Cathal Kelly, User:Geo Swan/Martin Myers. Geo Swan (talk) 19:05, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

10 candidates was the shortlist in 1990. No, they've never repeated that since — and note also that the shortlist hasn't always consistently been five titles either, but has also sometimes been three, four or six — but the article isn't making a special "preliminary longlist" exception for 1990, the source explicitly states that the committee just released a longer shortlist in 1990 than they have before or since. (See also the ReLit Awards: they're not veering back and forth between longlists in some years and shortlists in others either, they're only listing the shortlists and it's the award itself that varies the size of its shortlists to sometimes be longer or shorter than other years' shortlists are.)

And no, being longlisted for an award isn't necessarily a notability-clincher in and of itself anyway — but that's kind of beside the point, because if you've actually got 30 reliable sources you can show about her and her book, then she would get over WP:GNG anyway, and thus you wouldn't need an award (or even an award nomination) to make her notable. A writer's notability isn't necessarily contingent on actually having award wins or nominations under her belt, per se — winning a major literary award is obviously a strong notability claim for a writer, but it's not the only way a writer can clear the notability bar. If a writer without major awards can be shown to get over GNG on her sourceability, then she still gets over GNG whether she's got awards to show or not. And the same is true of Dyer and Kelly and Myers: depending on the longlist nomination as the notability claim in and of itself won't cut it per se, but if they make the shortlist when that gets released that will count for more (although the article would still have to be sourced to more than just one piece of technical verification of the shortlist itself), and even if they don't make the shortlist at all they can still be notable anyway if you can actually source them over GNG properly. You have shown a bit of a skewed understanding of what sources do or don't actually count toward GNG sometimes — like journalists whose only substantive non-primary source was an article in the real estate section of her own employer about her struggle to buy a house, and wasn't actually being covered in the context of her journalism — but if you can actually show the correct kind of sources to actually get a writer over GNG, then it doesn't actually matter if she's got awards or not.

I also fail to see how anything I said was "disrespectful" to your status as a longtime contributor; I'll acknowledge that my writing tone is pretty direct, but nothing I said was impolite or disrespectful at all. But you're still derailing the discussion by acknowledging that I'm probably correct that the article doesn't need to note the preliminary longlist at all, and then still veering off to justify the longlist on tangential grounds that are irrelevant to the question of whether the information is fundamentally relevant to the article or not. (Incidentally, I'd also invite you to go back and look at the table carefully to find the formatting error that you introduced, but that's not really central to whether the information belongs in the article or not either.) So, again: do you have a reason why the article needs to contain the preliminary longlist itself? Any other issue is irrelevant. This isn't about reference formatting, or about what writers you are or aren't allowed to work on in your sandbox — the only question here is "why does the preliminary longlist need to be in the article at all", and you haven't even really tried to answer that. Bearcat (talk) 19:43, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

• Now that I finished starting draft stubs at User:Geo Swan/Ali Bryan, User:Geo Swan/Hadley Dyer, User:Geo Swan/Cathal Kelly, User:Geo Swan/Martin Myers I rewound the 2019 section.
• I also added the missing descriptive title to the tables for the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.
• Additional comments to follow... Geo Swan (talk) 14:03, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

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Nomination of Ontario Place station for deletion

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ANI notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. --WaltCip (talk) 17:16, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

... Which is now moot, because the IP who made the original ANI notice was blocked by Bbb23 as a block evader.--WaltCip (talk) 17:40, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The discussion is about the topic Outing attempt. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 11:19, 9 May 2019‎ (talk • contribs) 96.45.202.39 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.18

Hello Geo Swan,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:

• Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
• Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.

Reliable Sources for NPP

Rosguill has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.

Backlog drive coming soon

Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.

News

• Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Discussions of interest

• A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
• There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
• What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like

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Source issue

What happened with the 92 sources from the List of celebrities who have had an abortion page? P.S.: Many thanks for all of your work on the page. Scribestress (talk) 18:08, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

• Did you mean this edit?
• Some newspapers only keep the last N years online.
• Some newspapers and other RS sites will do a major reorganization, where, even though they keep their pages online, they break all the old links, because all the pages have new URLs.
• It used to be these URLS could be lost. However, about a decade ago, some contributors started to use archive sites, the most famous one being the wayback machine (http://archive.org). I also use http://webcitation.org/archive.php They are both non-profits, that try to take a snapshot of the appearance of a webpage. Archive.org archived pages are generally more authentic appearing. webcitation will sometimes work on pages archive.org doesn't handle. In theory they assume their non-profit use of the pages qualifies as fair use, and they will remove pages from their archives if the page owner complains. In theory both sites respect something called a "no-robots" directive.
• When you click on a page's history one of buttons at the top says "fix dead links". Clicking that button sets a robot to work to try to archive all the references on the page.
• Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 21:34, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

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You have been mentioned in an ANI thread

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User:Geo_Swan harassing User:Hullaballoo_Wolfowitz. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 15:29, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:2010s Canadian special-purpose aircraft

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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

Hello Geo Swan,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.

QUALITY of REVIEWING

Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.

Backlog

The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.

Move to draft

NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.

Notifying users

Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.

PERM

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Other news

School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Ships by the Cook Islands

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Sherbourne Street

Given that Sherbourne Street, Suffolk is a redirect to Edwardstone, is it OK to redirect User:Geo Swan/Sherbourne Street, Suffolk to Edwardstone and then history merge it to Sherbourne Street, Suffolk. Note that I am the author of the original article but accept that it doesn't need a separate article. Crouch, Swale (talk) 13:51, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

• First my apologies for a lapse. I should have made sure there was a __NOINDEX__ directive on the page. I've done so now. I don't agree Sherbourne Street, Suffolk doesn't merit its own article.

• Redirects from userspace to articles space are prohibited, so we shouldn't do that. Geo Swan (talk) 16:53, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
  • Regardless of it it does or not the history should be moved back to mainspace. And redirect from userspace are fine, just not the other way round. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:06, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

Maps

You are aware of mw:Help:Extension:Kartographer right? Just checking as your user page information about maps seems a bit dated. --Gryllida (talk) 21:37, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

• Gryllida, no, I was not aware. Yes, the several hundred maps I created were all created with an online tool that went away over a decade ago. I was just thinking the other day of how much I missed it.
• This project looks extremely interesting. I tried experimenting with it, using the most recent geographical article I started Metishto River - which unfortunately I do not have the geographical coordinates for.
• I have a couple of questions. I hope you don't mind me asking them of you...

1. That online tool would render maps in one of 6 projections, Mercator, which I never used, Orthographic, Lambert Azimuthal and three others. Are all the Kartographer maps Mercator projection.
2. If the map doesn't show a feature, like a river, or a railway, are there any steps one can take to add that feature?
3. There seem to be a small number of additional cartographic databases one can specify. Is there a list? How does one figure out which features the additional databases contain?
4. That online tool required two latitude, longitude pairs. These would become two opposing corners of the map. Is there a similar way to mark the boundaries of the map with this tool?

Thanks! Geo Swan (talk) 00:15, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Interesting questions. I only know for #2 - add it to www.osm.org, it would become available on-wiki then. I'd suggest to inquire at mw:Help talk:Extension:Kartographer. Gryllida (talk) 02:11, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

• Gryllida I've added some simple maps to a dozen or so articles, since you left me this heads-up. So thanks for that. Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 03:30, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

  I'm happy it helps. Did you ask your questions some where? I would be curious to know the answers. Gryllida (talk) 04:40, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Amir Hamza

Could you please solve the 23 links to the disambiguation page Amir Hamza that you have caused by changing the redirect in a disambiguation page? Thanks in advance! The Banner talk 09:54, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

•  Done several of the links were to Mohammed uncle, not the cricket player. Geo Swan (talk) 15:42, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

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•  Done Geo Swan (talk) 03:31, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

August 2019

Hello GS. Please read the guidelines at WP:DABRED - where is says "Do not create red links to articles that are unlikely ever to be written, or are likely to be removed as insufficiently notable topics" and "Red links should not be the only link in a given entry" Remember dab pages are not list articles - in other words dab pages are directional not informative. Now per "Unlink the entry word but still keep a blue link in the description" if you can find the name of a newspaper, magazine, website or blog that Yasmin Khan writes for that also has an article at WikiP then you can add that as a blue link and restore that persons name to the dab page. Your cooperation in this will be appreciated. MarnetteD|Talk 04:01, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

1. 2019-08-25 19:45 I start Yasmin Khan (disambiguation), I leave Yasmin Khan (writer) a red link, because I expect to start it momentarily.
2. 2019-08-25 20:38 you excise Yasmin Khan (writer) from the dab.
3. 2019-08-25 21:42 I start Yasmin Khan (writer)
4. 2019-08-25 21:46 after checking the new article's links I find you trimmed the dab page, and I restore it.
5. 2019-08-25 22:51 you excise the Yasmin Khan (writer) entry again, on the grounds it contains only a redlink, apparently without checking to confirm whether Yasmin Khan (writer) was still a redlink.
6. 2019-08-25 23:01 you left the note, above, apparently without checking to confirm whether Yasmin Khan (writer) was still a redlink.
7. 2019-08-26 09:43 I restore the Yasmin Khan (writer) entry.

• MarnetteD I do not believe DABRED is applicable to Yasmin Khan (writer). She is not just a writer of a pair of cookbooks, many RS, around the world, have noted that she was a lawyer and human rights worker, before she became a food writer. Those RS have commented that, after shifting to food writing her cookbooks serve to acquaint food readers with the human rights and other issues Palestinian and Iranian people face. It is not just a few RS. I became aware of her when PBS Newshour devoted over five minutes to interviewing her, last night.
• When I started the dab page, I left a redlink, without a blue link, as I started the Yasmin Khan (writer) article. I anticipated it would take 15 or 20 minutes to publish the first draft of that article. For various reasons it took me just under two hours. This is a very minor breach of rules. Do you want an apology for this? Please see User:Geo Swan/opinions/On apologies. Geo Swan (talk) 15:05, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

I am glad you got her article going - well done. MarnetteD|Talk 15:38, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Stockholm

I just figured it was an American film, it may in fact be Canadian. Vincelord (talk) 14:07, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

• A reply to this...

  Sigh more cultural imperialism... Geo Swan (talk) 14:10, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

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100,000th edit!

	100,000th edit award
	Hello GS. Let me be the first to congratulate you on your 100,000th edit! You are now entitled to place the 100,000 Edit Star on your bling page! or you could choose to display the {{User 100,000 edits}} user box. Or both! Thanks for all your work at the 'pedia! Cheers, — MarnetteD|Talk 16:51, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Fram

I think you should stop pestering Fram. - Sitush (talk) 17:35, 25 September 2019 (UTC)