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The da Vinci Barnstar
[edit]The da Vinci Barnstar | ||
For your recent exceptional work in kicking User:DPL bot in places which must have hurt. Narky Blert (talk) 21:15, 6 November 2017 (UTC) |
Thank you! :-) R'n'B (call me Russ) 21:20, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Thanks for you hard work in maintaining Wikipedia. Txantimedia (talk) 18:21, 18 November 2017 (UTC) |
A pie for you!
[edit]For helping out fixing all those disambig links on all the new Hisatsu Orange Railway pages, much appreciated! :) RubenSchade (talk) 00:12, 29 November 2017 (UTC) |
Some baklava for you!
[edit]G Hotors497F? (talk) 23:45, 12 April 2021 (UTC) |
A barnstar for you!
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For running the disambiguation contest month after month, there are not enough barnstars in the world. BD2412 T 17:09, 2 February 2024 (UTC) |
Tech News: 2024-45
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Tech News: 2024-47
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- Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects. [8]
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MediaWiki message delivery 01:58, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
Issue considering User:Dogcatmousebird on An-Najm
[edit]Hello R'n'B. I've been in a dispute concerning the page An-Najm, where the user mentioned (new account, about 4 days old) seems to be stern on mentioning Satanic Verses in the page, despite having little to no relation to the chapter itself. I reverted the user the first time, to which he removed my revert with no explanation. Then I reverted him a second time, to which he decided to add an entire section about it, justifying the addition as "a key factual and historical narrative directly tied to the revelation and interpretation of Surah An-Najm", which is simply untrue. Muslims who have memorized and recited this chapter have no idea concerning this incident since this has nothing to do with the chapter, and is a separate incident that does not need to be mentioned on the page due to its irrelevancy.
I'm leaving it to your judgement since you're an administrator here, since I disagree with the addition and it even seems to be POV pushing, considering the lack of defense of such an addition, blatant false statements, and the 'summary' appearing to be a blatant copy+paste from the main article. Thank you. —Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 00:59, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, but I'm not familiar enough with the subject matter or the relevant sources to form a meaningful opinion on the issue. I would suggest you approach Wikipedia:WikiProject Islam to find other editors who do have the relevant expertise to weigh in on the dispute. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 02:50, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
- I want to add two things:
- The first time I reverted your change without an explanation was an accident, I'm new
- Second thing is I want to clarify the use of the term "factual". In my edit message, I mean everything I added to the post is factual. The account and dispute exists.
- Any non-biased observer, informed on the subject, can see the obvious relevance this topic has to the Surah, and the obvious bias in attempting to suppress it. 2600:100F:B1B5:DB0B:C45E:D322:468F:33F (talk) 04:34, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
RussBot: Should Category:Delete be a special case?
[edit]This edit, while an entirely correct implementation of the relevant bot task, led to a situation where the page was in CAT:CSD without any CSD template, which is confusing for admins patrolling the category. Again, the bot did nothing wrong here, but would it maybe make sense to special-case this such that the bot simply removes Category:Delete with an edit summary pointing the user to WP:Deletion process? -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe) 07:23, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks - seems like a reasonable suggestion. However, I'm more likely to ignore the category entirely than to edit it with a special message. I'll try to get around to it sometime soon. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 01:24, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-48
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Expiatory chapels
[edit]Hello
I came across this term on a number of pages recently and added some links (viz. this, on 27 Oct); you subsequently changed them to something else. As the link I added went to the Votive Church page, which explains the term, and your link (which uses more text) goes to a page that doesn’t, how exactly was that an improvement? Moonraker12 (talk) 19:54, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
- Perhaps I was too hasty. Votive church is a disambiguation page, and if that's the only Wikipedia page that explains what an "expiatory chapel" is, that's a problem. In this case, I think the problem is that Votive church is a broad-concept article that's been incorrectly marked as a disambiguation page. In other words, there are churches that have "Votive" in the name that need to be disambiguated, but we also need an article (not a disambiguation page) that explains the overall concept of what a votive church is. The current page could probably be improved to serve that function with a few references to reliable sources. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 22:33, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-49
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- Two new parser functions were added this week. The
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language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia. - Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [15]
- Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwiki, cawiki, frwiki, mediawikiwiki, orwiki, wawiki, wawiktionary, wikidatawiki, zhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF). [16]
- This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2024
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).
Interface administrator changes
- Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
- Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.
- Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.
- The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
- An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.
Don't delete Margaret D. Nadauld article
[edit]Could I please get your help? Someone has nominated the article Margaret D. Nadauld for deletion, claiming that Nadauld is not notable. It was the same person who did it 6 years ago. I'd appreciate if you could support keeping it. See the talk page on that article for my arguments why she's notable, or peruse the article's 25+ references yourself. Personally, I believe the person who proposed deletion deserves a trout for claiming that she's not notable, given the contents of those sources. If you please, just follow the deletion discussion link, edit, and add a line at the bottom similar to the following:
- Keep: Your reason here. Davemc0 (talk) 16:49, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- I suggest you review WP:Canvassing. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 18:46, 6 December 2024 (UTC)