User talk:SandyGeorgia

In appreciation

		The Winnowing Fan Barnstar
		For your decades-long effort to separate the grain from the chaff. Best wishes, ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:50, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		The Helping Hand Barnstar
		Hi Sandy! I was assigned to the AD article a long while ago with some peers in my class and have been keeping tabs on the article since then. Similar to the previous barnstar (above), I'm honestly a huge fan of your work - you were super helpful back when I was learning the ropes of Wikipedia editing and I wanted to come back and say THANK YOU for all that. I hope all is well and that you know all your efforts are appreciated and remembered :) Bharatss-SB (talk) 20:37, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Belkisyole Alarcón de Noya

Hi! I recently created the article about Venezuelan physician Belkisyole Alarcón de Noya, I thought you could be interested in taking a look at it. Kind regards :) NoonIcarus (talk) 00:58, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed quote citations

Thanks for the message - I've fixed those citations, and thanks for explaining what it was that I missed. Apologies if this isn't the right way to send someone a message, despite using and editing a lot, I don't know how to chat/message. Montezuma69 (talk) 01:54, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thx, Montezuma69; there is a problem with my internet provider (in my entire neighborhood), so my connection is spotty, and I'm not able to work. Could you also doublecheck the duplication on the Argentina text? I think it was already there and you added it again ... and you messaged just fine! Prefieres castellano? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:56, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

English is good, my Spanish isn't great - enough to read newspapers, and fluent french helps.

It's all sorted - my mistake, I had used the Milei quote, as had someone else independently and I forgot to delete it.

Are you looking after this article? I am about to go to bed, but intend to look out for updates tomorrow, as to what happens next with the election, and who says what next, Montezuma69 (talk) 02:24, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I will be looking in as I can, but my internet provider is a mess in my whole neighborhood ... SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:22, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Political interference in Venezuelan election

The election in Venezuela is in dispute and unconfirmed. It should be illegal for you to spread disinformation, remove your perjury from this website or we will petition to have you removed. You are disseminating propaganda and conveying false semiotics that are clearly and flagrantly political interference. You will never maintain the energy to defend it. 50.117.139.153 (talk) 07:45, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

At ANI: [1] SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:54, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2024 Venezuelan presidential election

You must be tired and a little fed up. I wanted to thank you for the work you are doing on the above subject. I'm not familiar enough with it to help out but you're doing a great job, Knitsey (talk) 16:17, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much, Knitsey; I'm not fed up just yet, although I am extremely frustrated by intermittent internet outages preventing me from working efficiently -- there are two trucks in my neighborhood, trying to fix a big problem with two hubs, and they say it could be a few days. I do appreciate the kind words!! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:20, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I hope it's fixed soon. Keep up the good work. Knitsey (talk) 16:22, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Catching up...

Just a quick note that I've got a lot of pings (all from you?) to catch up with. Not complaining, just noting. :) Boud (talk) 20:24, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know, and sorry about the edit summary pings ... with the internet connectivy mess I'm having (darn company says they have to replace two hubs in my neighborhood), it's the easiest way for me to get your attention :) Bst, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:52, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is OR, so only justified on a user talk page: for a big random bunch of the actas, I get about 91% automatic confirmations of exact agreement with the vote counts listed in RESULTADOS_2024_CSV_V1.csv. The other 9% are the lowest quality scans (e.g. the QR code has spiky bits and in the human-readable section, a 5 looks like a 6) - resultadosconvzla.com either have better software or did the remaining few percent by human eye+brain + typing the numbers and adding them. There's an AP article floating around somewhere where AP claims 96% automatic confirmation. No sign of any error at all in the resultadosconvzla.com numbers compared to the actas. Boud (talk) 01:11, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Boud ... I think that's the ref name=APReview source ? When I was much younger, I lived and worked in Venezuela (and throughout Latin America) for many years, and this is "not their first rodeo"; bright Venezuelans saw what the Carter Center did in 2004 and know how the vote has always been manipulated. You can be sure that there were brainiacs at work on the organization and the data gathering to have the evidence we saw within days of 28 July, which is also in the sources I've added ... but so much of what is written in sources is in Spanish, so readers may be missing it, and I just haven't had enough time to expand (so I'm glad when Wilfredor stops by and drops in a big chunk!). I am unsurprised that you found no errors. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:33, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I just came to complain that I don't get many pings from Sandy!. I can confirm what Sandy mentioned. The discrepancies in the records are likely due to the corrupt system within the CNE, not actual fraud in the records. The electoral distribution, polling station assignments, and organization according to population districts, including deceased persons, all favor the regime. Additionally, factors like psychological pressure on public employees and manipulation of voting machines with assisted voting contribute to this. Plus, 8 million Venezuelans who left the country would likely vote against the regime. This issue has highlighted the regime's problems and exposed support from other governments, including Lula, AMLO, and Petro, as well as expected support from Nicaragua and Cuba. Wilfredor (talk) 02:00, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hola, Wilfredor! Since the arbcase, I've avoided pinging Venezuelan editors to discussions, out of respect for the human rights concerns. This time, I got to ping you because of your contribution to the article. I hope you're well, and am always happy to see you. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:57, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You can ping me a thousand times a day, you won't be annoying or anything. Wilfredor (talk) 22:12, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cite Q and CITEVAR

Boud sorry for missing that archive-url; I'll try to doublecheck more carefully going forward, and hope to avoid any further Cite Q mixups (but they sure are hard to check, since the data is stored elsewhere and not viewable in edit mode). Now that I've caught up on the issues with {{Cite Q}} (ongoing since 2017), I realize that getting into that discussion during the election debacle would create a massive distraction, so I'm just going to live with those citations. Considering that template has existed since 2017, and survived deletion only on no consensus, I'm not surprised it has apparently never shown up in a Featured article and I've never encountered it before-- now I'll live with it in the interest of moving forward on the article, even though it's creating lots of extra work for me at a time I'd rather be writing content. Your valued participation in the article makes it worthwhile to live with the extra editing I have to do around that template :) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:03, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, no problem. :) As for 'not viewable in edit mode', I usually only edit individual sections, so I have to go to another tab - often doing an edit that I don't save - to check for references. What's interesting is how complementary different Wikipedians' contributions are. I've never tried to get an article to WP:FA status - I'm happy to trust the crowd on that - I'm more interested in well-sourced information getting robustly into the information cycle and being as verifiable as possible, and that includes in multiple languages. Though I do do some tidying too. Anyway, I did a new edit to my user page; I think that |id=[[:d:Q128550264]] makes sense and would be difficult for anyone to object to: the identifier is short and compact, and gives a clickable link to the "external" (from the Wikipedia point of view) URL of that source. You could try it and see if anyone objects. Boud (talk) 19:19, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Boud the id thing is awesome; thanks for testing it and making it work. I am home briefly between meetings, so will have to catch up later. Bst, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:25, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Glad you like it :). Boud (talk) 21:48, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am glad we hit on a workaround, so we can get back to content. I've had a very busy day, and have updated nothing when I've got dozens of sources to add :( SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:55, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured article review/Thomas C. Hindman/archive1

This is the one that I rewrote from a version with crappy source-text integrity a couple years ago (essentially, the user had copied some of the footnotes from the book as article citations to make it look less like the article was reliant on a single source I think). I hope there are no hard feelings - you had thought this shouldn't be a FAR situation. But there were prose quality issues noted at the time; I've had trouble getting follow-up reviews. It's maybe not what FAR is intended for, but with the way work has been accelerating for me since I got promoted in June of 2023, I can't guarantee that I'll still be even a semi-active editor in another couple years, and I just really want closure on this. Hog Farm _Talk 01:12, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Hog Farm, great to see you; I may get a break after this week and be able to have a look. My life stubbornly refuses to settle down. I know you're swamped too, but you may want to look in on this. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:22, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've responded on the Longstreet talk page, which I hope will be more productive than a sprawling ANI discussion. It's yet another busy week for me in a summer/year of busy weeks. Hog Farm _Talk 01:10, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Historical Material

Dear Sandy, I leave you this mission here, to place this multimedia material where you think best. I know they are in Spanish but you can also place it on other Wikipedias. (BTW you can take screenshoots if you need for some article too)

Renny Presenta
Renny Presenta
Canal 8
Jorge Olavarria
Caracas 1935
Carlos Andrés Pérez
3 decadas de VTV
President Lusinchi
27 de Febrero de 1989
La Dueña - Amanda Gutiérrez

Wilfredor (talk) 00:30, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Sources

Greetings,

what's your take on Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Sources vis-a-vis the "high-quality reliable source" criteria at FAC? Often when reviewing video game articles sources on this list are used and while it seems that the reliable source criteria are usually met, I dunno about "high-quality" (but then, that's a problem whenever a non-academic topic comes up at FAC) Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 17:40, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I learned this year that a lot of the entries in Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Sources#Unreliable sources were created over a decade ago, by a couple of editors (no RFCs, which is IMO reasonable, but also barely anybody involved in the discussions). Since sources can change over time (in either direction), I wonder how up-to-date it is and whether all of the entries really represent the community's view. I think it's a handy starting point, but I wouldn't take it as authoritative. It's pretty much a WP:LOCALCONSENSUS: one small group of editors making a few notes for their own use, but not a rule that is binding on anyone else. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:37, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]