User talk:Couruu

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Happy editing! Cheers, Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 17:18, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

March 2023

Hello, I'm CycloneYoris. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, The Parting Glass, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. CycloneYoris ^talk! 10:54, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

March 2023

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a message letting you know that one or more of your recent edits to Constellis have been undone by an automated computer program called ClueBot NG.

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August 2023

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Couruu (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Caught by an open proxy block but this host or IP is not an open proxy. My IP address is 10.80.1.7 (According to Wikipedia). Other websites have my IP at 213.105.99.162, so I'm very confused why Wikipedia thinks I'ma t 10.x.x.x - especially since that's an internal IP and not externally addressable!. Couruu (talk) 13:53, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Accept reason:

Please try now (and yes). Yamla (talk) 14:01, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to Yamla for sorting this, job done. Any idea what could've caused it? Couruu (talk) 14:26, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yeap! It's a bug, see Phabricator. :( --Yamla (talk) 14:27, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, enjoy firefighting that one! Thanks again mate. Couruu (talk) 14:28, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Restricted topics

Hi. See WP:GS/AA as several Armenia and Azerbaijan related topics are under an extended confirmed restriction. You are not allowed to edit these topics as you’re not an extended confirmed user. Vanezi (talk) 20:05, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, was unaware. Noted and will keep in mind. Couruu (talk) 18:51, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

VE governmental pages

You probably noticed my fix at the CNE article. You're right that the Venezuelan government/politics related articles do need a lot of cleaning up, but in fact I was glad to see that they're not quite as bad as I feared. Info on the five-branch structure of government is on the constitution page, and is now (slightly) clearer on the government page - uncontroversial but unsourced.

There are plenty of questions worth documenting per WP:RS if you're interested (questions that pop up in my head): what do researchers say about whether the "five branches" were really or still are (as of mid 2024 prior to the 28 July presidential election) independent checks and balances on one another? were they fully independent in the first years of Chavez and then they became too intermeshed? was there difficulty creating them and making them independent from one another due to institutional inertia and US interference? what changes happened to the five branches in relation to being independent checks and balances during the Maduro period?

The POVs of Chavez/Maduro supporters, Venezuelan opposition groups, and US pro-military-industrial-complex thinktanks are, of course, valid POVs if attributed, and the findings of researchers are probably not completely neutral either. Though I do think that a mix of academic research, especially from a mix of research institutes from around Latin America, would give something fairly close to useful knowledge.

For finding sources, I recommend any SearXNG instance, e.g. choose one at https://searx.space and then use the "Science" section - this means "Science" in the broad sense of scholarly research. This decentralisation would avoid the problems of Google.

Feel free to copy/paste this to a talk page of one of the relevant article talk pages if you think that's useful - I'm just thinking off the top of my head - I'm probably not going to do any of the above myself. Yours troutfully. ;) Boud (talk) 00:35, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]