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This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2020)

Skurfing as a sport has two common forms: "water skurfing" and "street skurfing". Pictured is an example of water skurfing, water skiing on a surfboard. Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Skurfing (sport) Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Delivery (commerce) • Act (drama) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 31 August 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

DYK for Hamilton McWhorter III

On 4 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hamilton McWhorter III, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Hamilton McWhorter III (Congressional Gold Medal pictured) was the first F6F Hellcat pilot to achieve double-ace status? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hamilton McWhorter III. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Hamilton McWhorter III), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—valereee (talk) 12:02, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

7477 page views 7&6=thirteen (☎) 21:20, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2020)

Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Grease (song) Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Skurfing (sport) • Delivery (commerce) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 7 September 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Liberty Towers (Jersey City)

Hi, 7&6=thirteen! I have just made an edit on an article named Liberty Towers (Jersey City) to fix some issues and improve its quality. There, I found that one of the references that you made in this edit was not linked to any source. I just wonder if that was accidental or true, but somewhat gone. So, I come here to ask you regarding this problem. Thank you. Best regards, Samuelsp15 (talk) 16:13, 11 September 2020 (UTC).

This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2020)

The history of Asian art includes a vast range of influences from various cultures and religions. Pictured is Buddhist Temple in the Mountains, 11th century, China, ink on silk, by Li Cheng. Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Asian art Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Grease (song) • Skurfing (sport) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 14 September 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Brass

Greetings played by Moop Mama, more on my talk, or the Main page ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:47, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

User:Gerda Arendt Danke. Video and sound here. Dizzying video. I liked the performance. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:31, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

DYK for 2020 American athlete strikes

On 17 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2020 American athlete strikes, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that professional athletes protested by refusing to play in response to high-profile police shootings of Black people in 2020? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, 2020 American athlete strikes), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2020)

Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Pig Latin Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Asian art • Grease (song) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 21 September 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

So... what is your username?

I tried a dozen times to use Template:U to ping you in my response on Talk:List of fatal dog attacks in the United States but no matter how I cut and pasted your username, or handtyped it, I could not come up with a valid preview that looked right. I settled for a cut and paste of the simple text "7&6=thirteen". But putting that into the pinging template like {{u|7&6=thirteen}} in any form resulted in a mess at preview. So... what do I use in the future? Normal Op (talk) 16:21, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

User:Normal Op See the top of this page for guidance. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:18, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Oh, I get it. It's because it starts with a digit (not alpha). Sorry, I read too fast sometimes. Thanks! Normal Op (talk) 17:56, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2020)

Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: August 2016 Aden bombing Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Pig Latin • Asian art Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 28 September 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Keep it up :)

Thanks for your presence in the round of one dozen or so American Indian biographies in the AfD space. Reading your positive comment about the progress of one article is much appreciated (especially because this space is where work done is scrutinized by some to the point of excessive criticism). Keep it up! --DiamondRemley39 (talk) 15:08, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

A comment about yours...

Just my opinion... I think this round of AfDs is a result of the nominator's unconscious bias against older subjects just as much or more than it is against other cultures. They probably did see the then-weak articles as mere genealogy listings -- many articles about non-notability have gone to AfD in the past few months. And then didn't do the kind of thorough BEFOREs that are best to do before nominating. I think the user didn't factor in how hungry the public has been for writings about anyone related to Wounded Knee and Little Big Horn since those events happened. So many sources to be checked. I'm guessing they have little experience in the military space too. I see that the person commented on your talk page that they usually nominate rap musicians. The kind of coverage modern musicians get is very different from what 19th-century warriors get. But I don't think they mean ill. Just a case of limited context/research experience and underestimating the abilities of Wikipedians and they're getting defensive when their work is called out (as it has been by me). That happens all the time in AfDs. (I also see a lack of moderation--when nominating articles in a new area, why not just nominate 1-5 articles and see how it goes?) Just my two cents, not that you need it or anything. Glad to have you around and thanks again for the pastry. Cheers! --DiamondRemley39 (talk) 00:12, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Please stop

You've added "Part of attempted mass removal of articles about Native Americans without justification" to a number of AFDs. Please stop. If you feel my edits are vexatious or transgress some policy, there are other venues to address this. You are an experienced editor and should know better. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 14:12, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

User:Magnolia677 What I said was true.

I am an experienced editor and so are you.

Genocide and race eradications on the pages of wikipedia is unacceptable, and you should know better. Serial and unwarranted AFDs is burdensome. Takes a lot of time from editing. We will see the outcomes of your myriad nominations.

Parenthetically I do not share your confidence in the WP:ANI process, and have not gone there. But you know where to find them if you feel aggrieved.

I hope that the blood bath ends. Self correction would benefit us all. Stop the underlying behavior and I won't mention this further. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:50, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

User:Magnolia677,

As a further observation, thank you for getting in touch with me. I am glad that this got your attention. I think that working this out between editors is preferable to escalating and taking it to the cabal and the powers that be. Thank you again for getting in touch with me. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:33, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

I'm not sure what needs working out. A user already left a message on my talk page and I gave an honest answer. Most of my AFDs are to rap musicians, but I stumbled upon an article about a Native American and noticed that a number of similar or linked articles appeared completely non-notable. AFDs followed, though I speedy-closed one. Most of the AFDs have a number of delete votes, so I'm not sure this is unwarranted, or that removing non-notable biographies (or voting to delete them) is genocide or race eradication. People's feelings regarding particular topics is irrelevant, and Wikipedia isn't a loonie liberal arts college. Magnolia677 (talk) 21:43, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

I am not into rap musicians. I don't conceptualize Wikipedia or this discussion as being about a loonie liberal arts college. In any event, prods are a burden, and there are other ways to improve articles. When you do AFDs and the articles are kept anyway, maybe your approach and decision making process needs reevaluation. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 00:49, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2020)

Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Trout Mask Replica Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: August 2016 Aden bombing • Pig Latin Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 5 October 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Merger discussion for Predictions of the end of Wikipedia

An article that you have been involved in editing—Predictions of the end of Wikipedia—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Right cite (talk) 20:51, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2020)

Many species can live at high altitudes. For example, the Himalayan pika lives at altitudes up to 4,200 m (13,800 ft). Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Organisms at high altitude Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Trout Mask Replica • August 2016 Aden bombing Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 12 October 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Virtue rewarded

I’m having technical issues but I want to share what might help with the Virtue Rewarded AfD:

Quite a few entries at [1]. Maybe you can find some use of them? Glee^anon 13:10, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, I think

The torte is delicious, thank you so much. But why me? Textorus (talk) 22:11, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Because it was earned, and you need encouragement. Wikipedia is long on sticks and bricks. And barnstars are given out like they cost the user. Wikipedia is not a zero sum game. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 22:58, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2020)

Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Reader Rabbit Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Organisms at high altitude • Trout Mask Replica Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 19 October 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Please visit the Talk:86 (term) talk page

Section: Disputed edit by User:Gleeanon409, regarding International Business Times use. Glee^anon 18:45, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done I've 86'd my involvement in that page. Toxic. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 12:06, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2020)

Institutions and organizations of the United Nations, an intergovernmental organization Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Organization Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Reader Rabbit • Organisms at high altitude Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 26 October 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

October harvest

October

music today, - enchanting, said a critic about the Mendelssohn that I heard on 3 October, - this video is older, and the YT in the article comes with a Bach encore as she played for us. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:44, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

16 October memories --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:56, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Beautiful Main page today, don't miss the pic by a banned user (of a 2013 play critical of refugee politics), nor a related video, interviews in German, but music and scene. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:53, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2020)

Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Cultural exchange Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Organization • Reader Rabbit Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 2 November 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Disc jockey notability

I am trying to decide on whether disc jockey Dave Boxer who worked at CINW is worthy of an article. Is this an area of your expertise? Thanks. Flibirigit (talk) 20:10, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

I cannot find enough to say he meets GNG, so I will move on. Thanks in advance for reading my ramblings. Happy editing! Flibirigit (talk) 20:59, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2020)

An example of Chinese folklore is The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, a Chinese folk tale. Pictured is a depiction in the tale of the reunion of the couple of The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd on the bridge of magpies. The artwork displayed is in the Long Corridor of the Summer Palace in Beijing. Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Chinese folklore Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Cultural exchange • Organization Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 9 November 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Hounding

Stop hounding my deletion nominations. Final warning. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 21:32, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Sometimes an editor develops a reputation for disruptive actions and their edits earn more scrutiny. Perhaps looking at where there are intersections and studying those AfDs would illuminate the concern. Glee^anon 00:10, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Deacon Sad to see that you feel aggrieved. However, the world doesn't revolve around you. To be sure, your track record at AFDs belies your concern.

FWIW, I deny your accusation, and will participate in AFDs as I deem appropriate. You might consider WP:Own; you do not get to habitually propose deletions poorly, ignoring completely WP:Before; nor can you justifiably expect complete silence and abject acquiescence from the rest of the wikipedia community when you do that?

Of course, you are well familiar with WP:ANI. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:35, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Claimed problem solved. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:53, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the edits Gun serial number

I watch enough criminal investigation YT videos to learn that many of the critical evidence or clues are provided by being able to track what the gun is from. I appreciate you and all editors who created Gun serial number, and I was a bit surprised of the AfD. I am super glad to learn it from your DYK norm and also happy to see the AfD finally resovled. xinbenlv ^{Talk, Remember to "ping" me} 17:46, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

You are welcome. Glad to be of assistance. WP:ARS tries to help. I hope we can get the DYK through. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:53, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2020)

An illustration of the Pre-Columbian abacus, the Nepohualtzintzin, one of the many pre-Columbian inventions and innovations of indigenous Americans. Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: List of pre-Columbian inventions and innovations of indigenous Americans Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Chinese folklore • Cultural exchange Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 16 November 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Idiocracy

What are you doing? What is the edit summary "ref form" supposed to mean?

Please slow down. Please remember to preview your edits. -- 109.76.194.97 (talk) 18:39, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/109.76.194.97 Thanks for letting me know your concern. Apparently, What we have here is a failure to communicate. I tweaked the reference. It was a minor edit ("A good rule of thumb is that edits consisting solely of spelling corrections, formatting changes, or rearrangement of text without modification of content should be flagged as minor edits."), and that box was checked. If you had actually looked at the edit, it would have been readily apparent. Keep up the good work. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:42, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2020)

In macroeconomics, an industry is a branch of an economy that produces a closely related set of raw materials, goods, or services. Pictured is a cement factory in Malmö, Sweden, which is a part of the manufacturing industry. Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The following is WikiProject Articles for improvement's weekly selection: Industry Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: List of pre-Columbian inventions and innovations of indigenous Americans • Chinese folklore Get involved with the AFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 20:33, 23 November 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2020)

in 2013 Spanish singer Julio Iglesias was celebrated for being the artist in Latin music with the most records sold in history. Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Latin music (genre) Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Industry • List of pre-Columbian inventions and innovations of indigenous Americans Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 23:16, 30 November 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Image

Hey - you realize that this site just provides details about the observatory, and illustrates it? It's not saying the photo was taken on that date. ɱ (talk) 17:10, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Here is what the cite is and says: "ET, phone SETI@home". NASA Science. NASA. May 23, 1999. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:11, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Just because the article was published on that date doesn't mean the photograph was taken then. ɱ (talk) 17:16, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

I got rid of the "1999" and inserted "when operational". 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:20, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. FYI the image might be deleted as a copyvio anyway, you might want to search for a replacement on the Commons category... ɱ (talk) 17:26, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

It is a public image done by a public agency. No copyright. But if you can find a more suitable image, please go for it. Thanks. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:27, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Do you know where NSF states their photos are free? I know NASA does, but I'm not sure about NSF, their website somewhat says otherwise. ɱ (talk) 17:34, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Meaning no disrespect, but this is not the National Science Foundation website. It is a NASA website. here. So I am not convinced the link you provided applies. But you may be right and I could be wrong. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:42, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

I think I understand where the confusion is. NASA's APOD commonly republishes other peoples' images, and provides image credits, and sometimes links to the licenses. It didn't in the case in question (likely because the exact license is unknown), but does credit NAIC/NSF, which as a standard does not freely license their photos. ɱ (talk) 18:06, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

I did not add the image. All I did was fix the citation. And FWIW, the ITN nomination appears to be stillborn, unless my crystal ball is wrong. So I think we are done. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:36, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Ok, sure. The new image is clearer anyhow. I didn't even know about an ITN nom... ɱ (talk) 18:55, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

That image is probably a better one anyway. Continuous improvement is a goal to be fostered. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 19:10, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Gun serial number

Hello! Your submission of Gun serial number at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 22:17, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi, are you coming back to this? Yoninah (talk) 23:09, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

This has just been marked for closure. If you wish to save the nomination, you'll need to respond immediately to prevent it from being closed. Best of luck! BlueMoonset (talk) 06:48, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

New message from Narutolovehinata5

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User:Narutolovehinata5 Added three references.  Done 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:10, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2020)

Some traditional foods in Bengali cuisine Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Bengali cuisine Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Latin music (genre) • Industry Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 7 December 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

DYK for Gun serial number

On 8 December 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gun serial number, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a gun serial number can be any random set of numbers letters or a character string? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gun serial number. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Gun serial number), and it may be added to the statistics page if it received over 400 views per hour. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Thank you for being the wonderful person that you are. Your kind words have been appreciated. It has been my pleasure to see and experience your contributions here on Wikipedia. One can not place a value on it. Keep displaying your colors no matter where you go just like that rainbow. Tsistunagiska (talk) 17:08, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. I understand your sense of frustration. I sincerely hope we can continue to work together to build a better encyclopedia. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:38, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello 7&6=thirteen,

Year in review

It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.

Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
1	DannyS712 bot III (talk)	67,552	Patrol Page Curation
2	Rosguill (talk)	63,821	Patrol Page Curation
3	John B123 (talk)	21,697	Patrol Page Curation
4	Onel5969 (talk)	19,879	Patrol Page Curation
5	JTtheOG (talk)	12,901	Patrol Page Curation
6	Mcampany (talk)	9,103	Patrol Page Curation
7	DragonflySixtyseven (talk)	6,401	Patrol Page Curation
8	Mccapra (talk)	4,918	Patrol Page Curation
9	Hughesdarren (talk)	4,520	Patrol Page Curation
10	Utopes (talk)	3,958	Patrol Page Curation

Reviewer of the Year

John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.

NPP Technical Achievement Award

As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.

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This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2020)

A Christmas ham Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Christmas ham Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Bengali cuisine • Latin music (genre) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 14 December 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

A kitten for you!

Thanks man and thanks for the awesome work @Tommy Lister Jr. Sad it didn't get featured in ITN.

Fylindfotberserk (talk) 06:33, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

User:Fylindfotberserk Thanks for the recognition and noticing. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:21, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

File:Christmas tree in field.jpg	Merry Christmas 7&6=thirteen
	Hi 7&6=thirteen, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very happy and prosperous New Year, Thanks for all your contributions to Wikipedia this past year, like this tree, you are a light shining in the darkness. Onel5969 TT me 12:07, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2020)

Some (hopefully) edible things Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Edible Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Christmas ham • Bengali cuisine Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 21 December 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Bad apple on Template:Miscarriage of justice

On Template:Miscarriage of justice you added an entry for Bad apple. This links to a disambiguation page and I can't work our which article you intended - can you help?— Rod ^talk 19:13, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

 Done Rod Sure. Bad apples. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Have a happy holiday and a joyous and better New Year. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 19:17, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks - must be a US usage as I'm not familiar with it in the UK.— Rod ^talk 19:25, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Probably there and in Canada. Blame/justification/excuse for police or other group misconduct. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 20:58, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Tom Lister Jr.

Actor/wrestler/track star. Over 200 acting credits as a character actor. Just died. Worked on WP:ITN. It got rejected in a perverse exercise of ITN. ITN nomination is dead. Perverse result due to sourcing issues. I had similar experiences with Dr. John and Neil Peart. Large articles and prolific important artists; who got willfully ignored at ITN because the vast list of their works did not have sourcing that satisfied the cabal. And both of them got a huge amount of views. But this article got 230,000 views in the last nine days here. Popular article. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:44, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Merry!

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Merry Christmas

	Merry Christmas 7&6=thirteen
	Hi 7&6=thirteen, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very happy and healthy New Year, Thank you for all your contributions to Wikipedia,    –Davey2010Talk 19:35, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2021!

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Merry Christmas

	Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2021!
	Hello 7&6=thirteen, warm wishes to you and your family throughout the holiday season. May your heart and home be filled with all of the joys the festive season brings. Here is a toast to a Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year!. scope_creepTalk 11:42, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2021!

Hello 7&6=thirteen, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2021. Happy editing, Fylindfotberserk (talk) 08:35, 26 December 2020 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Happy New Year!

Walter Elmer Schofield, Across the River (1904), Carnegie Museum of Art.		Best wishes for a safe, healthy and prosperous 2021.
		Thank you for your contributions toward making Wikipedia a better and more accurate place. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 13:05, 26 December 2020 (UTC) Oneupsmanship: This painting turned the friendly rivalry between Edward Redfield and Elmer Schofield into a feud. Schofield was a frequent houseguest at Redfield's farm, upstream from New Hope, Pennsylvania, and the two would go out painting together, competing to capture the better view. Redfield served on the jury for the 1904 Annual Exhibition of the Carnegie Institute; at which, despite Redfield's opposition, Across the River was awarded the Gold Medal and $1,500 prize. It was not until a 1963 interview that the 93-year-old Redfield revealed the painting as the cause of the 40-year feud between them. Schofield may have painted it in England, but a blindsided Redfield knew that it was a view of the Delaware River, from his own front yard!

This week's article for improvement (week 53, 2020)

Fish processing is a significant part of the fishing industry. Pictured is frozen Tuna being cut using a band saw in the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Fishing industry Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Edible • Christmas ham Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 28 December 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

December 2020

Your recent editing history at Bolt (fabric) shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. 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 the bold, revert, discuss cycle 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.

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• Perhaps the article should be Bolt (measurement). How many things other than fabric use bolt as a measurement? Dream Focus 17:52, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Bolt (fabric)

I left you a message on Talk:Bolt (fabric) about a change you made that seems to have left an error in the article. While doing that I noticed that your username breaks the {{reply to}} template, presumably because it has an & in it. Did you know that? Just leaving you a message here to make sure you got the ping, I can't tell if my workaround works or not. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 18:10, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Ivanvector: FYI there's a note about 7&6's user name at the top of this talk page, so they are definitely aware of it! Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 18:50, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Aha, thanks Amakuru! I'm not in the habit of reading the tops of things :) 7&6, if you'd like that note as an editnotice on your talk page I can do that for you. ...I think. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 19:43, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

User talk:Ivanvector Generous offer. Thankfully accepted. Have at it. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 22:17, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy New Year, 7&6=thirteen!

Happy New Year!

7&6=thirteen,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Unblock request

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Request reason:

Caught by a colocation web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. Your current IP address is (Redacted) and the blocked range is 23.229.0.0/17 . Place any further information here. I was trying to add the Variety magazine information to Alto Reed. I have been blocked from editing. Andrew🐉(talk) 14:36, 31 December 2020 (UTC) per pro 7&6=thirteen

Decline reason:

That IP address is a confirmed proxy. Please disable your proxy/vpn and you should be able to edit after waiting 24 hours. Yamla (talk) 14:41, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

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Request reason:

Caught by a colocation web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. Your current IP address is (Redacted) and the blocked range is 23.229.0.0/17 . Place any further information here. I was trying to add the Variety magazine information to Alto Reed. I have been blocked from editing. 7&6=thirteen Carptrash (talk) 16:36, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

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Have you followed the instructions given above? You will need to wait 24 hours after disabling your VPN. — O Still Small Voice of Clam 16:50, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

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This block is a mistake

Like several other people, I received an email from 7&6=thirteen asking me to post the above appeal; apparently their talk page access was blocked as well as their editing ability.

This block needs to be undone; it is a good-faith but accidental miscarriage of justice; apparently they were caught up in a purge related to proxy accounts. But 7&6 is a long-established, exemplary editor, with more than 100,000 edits, here since 2007 with a clean block log in all that time. They have collaborated productively with me for many years. We need them back.

Someone please explain to them what they have to do to get themselves out of this unwarranted block. Yamla advised "disable your proxy/vpn" and wait 24 hours; will that do it? Can a more detailed instruction about how to do that be provided? We are not all techies here. Thanks for any assistance. -- MelanieN (talk) 16:55, 31 December 2020 (UTC) n

The range was blocked by User:ST47 for three years [2], but it does not appear to prevent talk page access. I'm not a techie either, so I can't advise anything other than Yamla suggests above. If there's a very good reason fro 7&6 to need a VPN, IPBE may be possible. — O Still Small Voice of Clam 17:02, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy New Year

	Happy new year 2021 !
	wish you a great New Year, and many thanks for supporting me at Bolt, it was pleasure working with you. Thanks and best regards RV (talk) 06:12, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks to all for your assistance. I've got talk page access back.

Haven't tried editing an article yet. I hope the block has been resolved. With a Little Help from My Friends I get by. This was a fitting hiccup to punctuate a bad year. Happy New Decade. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:09, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Editing is back. "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk." 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:49, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

7&6=thirteen, I was asked to look into this by a few TPS. So the range you mentioned was also globally blocked. When ranges are globally blocked by m:Stewards, you are not able to use your talkpage to appeal locally, but only at meta I've been told. This is why you couldn't appeal here, and you would have had to have contacted the stewards to get anything done, it wasn't a local admin that blocked you. Either way, you can always appeal to WP:UTRS or use the IRC unblock channel. That being said, the range has been blocked for a good reason. I tried to look as deep as I could to see what you may have enabled to tell you how to prevent it in the first place. The best idea I could come up with is you installed a browser extension between 13:33 and 16:57 UTC that changed your IP to a proxy editing out of the middle of France (on a webhost). If you need more help in trying to figure this out, I'd be happy to discuss things in private. But whatever was enabled in that timeframe (usually it never happens automatically) is what gave you issues. Courtesy ping: @MelanieN: -- Amanda (aka DQ) 18:20, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

I was not appealing for everyone in the range that was blocked. I didn't knowingly install a web browser extension. Although I just had to uninstall my old Norton Systemworks in the last couple of days and replaced it with a new one, and I don't know what it did, if anything. I have never been to France, and you may be assured that I am not hiding or cloaking my IP, as far as I know. That's why I went to the Wikimedia Stewards. Thanks to whomever fixed the problem. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:45, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Thirteen merely unlucky? A likely story! So welcome back. InedibleHulk (talk) 04:30, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2021)

Cooked pork chops Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Pork chop Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Fishing industry • Edible Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 4 January 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

ITN recognition for Tanya Roberts

On 5 January 2021, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Tanya Roberts, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page.  — Amakuru (talk) 19:26, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

1.9 million views. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 12:29, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

The 50,000 Challenge Questions

Hello, 7&6=thirteen. I'm not exactly a new Wikipedia editor at this point, but I've only semi-recently started looking beyond just making articles, and into the more behind the scenes administration of Wikipedia, and I have some questions about the the 50,000 Challenge if you don't mind me asking. If there are better places I could be asking this, let me know.

So, the 50,000 Challenge is something I found out about fairly early on, but I think I've been contributing to it incorrectly so far. I did not realize that I was supposed to put my articles on a list on the WikiProject page. My main question is this: Should I go back and put the relevant, start and lengthy stub articles (like Lorenzo T. Durand, Vernon J. Brown, and Eugene R. Cater) on this list now, even if some of the articles are more than a year old? Or should I start to just make a habit of putting new articles I make on the lists on the Wikiproject page.

Also, I wanted to ask if my state legislature district pages would be a good fit for the 50,000 Challenge or not. Should I add a page like Michigan's 87th House of Representatives district to the list or not?

Thank you, and sorry if this isn't the appropriate place to ask these questions.

RoundSquare (talk) 22:24, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

User:RoundSquare I have no idea. I've never participated in it; or even been aware of it. I would say go to the talk page of Wikipedia:The 50,000 Challenge and start there. Sorry, but I am ignorant on the point. Good luck. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 04:05, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Mercy dog

This new article was just on the main page as a DYK. Not my DYK. I tweaked it and linked it (in and out). Didn't know about these dogs. 150,000 page views. I would bet that the eye candy of this painting helped a lot. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:26, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Dr. John

The addition of categories that are supported by the article's content isn't vandalism, as far as I'm concerned. My intentions were good, maybe the vandalism was another IP address in the same geographic location as me, which can make it hard to tell the difference between WP:Vandalism and WP:NOTVANDALISM I guess, so don't be so quick to assume that I vandalized the article and that it was a WP:BADFAITH edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:153:881:3D60:68BA:6A06:E59A:D7 (talk) 05:38, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

 Fixed Yes. You are right. Replied on your talk page. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:20, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Lumbersexual Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Pork chop • Fishing industry Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 11 January 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Swaggering

Hi 7&6: Have you read the personal grooming article? (I'm guessing that's a no.) If so, can you please explain how washing yourself has anything to do with swaggering? I'm guessing that the person who linked it was thinking of "preening" in the Shakespearean sense—but "preening" on Wikipedia redirects to "personal grooming". BTW, I'm not quite sure what your edit summary is supposed to mean. I am a reader. That's why I removed it. MeegsC (talk) 15:26, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

User:MeegsC You are a reader and an editor. Its relevancy is close enough, IMO. We should err on the side of too much of the irrelevant, rather than too little of the relevant. Your decision to excise it takes away the suggestion to the reader. Your mileage may vary. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:30, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Tanya Roberts

7&6=thirteen (☎) 19:02, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

So much for the editor who said on the article's talk page that "she's not famous."

Got this one passed by ITN. Nevertheless, I have had mainly bad experiences at WP:ITN. They were a disservice to prolific artists, whose articles had lots or work, all of which was not specifically referenced. IMDB isn't acceptable. And somebody like Dr. John and Neil Peart were way notable, and were perversely punished. There are some things in Wikipedia that are immutable! Oh well. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 19:12, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Dr. John

I see that you're heavily involved with the Dr. John article. I added Against the Wind (album), Dr. John played keyboard on The Horizontal Bop. I added a source,, too. The source is Against the Wind (album)#Personnel. Can other articles on Wikipedia be used as sources?--2601:153:881:3D60:F9B8:1C89:B648:F2D6 (talk) 05:49, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/2601:153:881:3D60:F9B8:1C89:B648:F2D6 Nope. WP:RS WP:Wikipedia is not a reliable source. Sorry, but that is pretty well established. It is the same reasoning that precluded use of IMDB. See Wikipedia:Citing IMDb and Questionable sources. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:44, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2021)

Sani Pass in Mokhotlong, Lesotho is an example of a mountain pass. Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Mountain pass Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Lumbersexual • Pork chop Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 18 January 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Mountain pass

I can't find mention of 2,000-foot differential in the reference book you just posted for an addition to the mountain pass article. Are you sure you've got the right page? - DavidWBrooks (talk) 16:06, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

User:DavidWBrooks It's in the linked page on page 103 as I recall. And it should have been 2,000 meters (6,600 ft) not 2,000 feet (610 m) Sorry. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:17, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Interesting stuff - but as I read it (page 103), it's not using 2000m to define a mountain pass, it's using a distance of 2000m between a mountain pass and summit as a way to categorize different mountain "groups" - sizes and types, I think. So it's not that a height difference of, say, 1800m isn't a pass - it's still a pass but in a different (lower?) category of mountain. The way I read your edit to the article, I took it to mean that anything less than 2000m isn't a "mountain pass" at al, which is why I checked out the reference. Does that make sense? - DavidWBrooks (talk) 16:37, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

You may be right. I am in the middle of real life stuff, and this is not on my agenda for today. Do what you think is right. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:49, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2021)

Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Viral phenomenon Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Mountain pass • Lumbersexual Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 25 January 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Larry King

ITN. 2.6 million views in a few days. I helped navigate the treacherous waters of ITN, and also improved the article materially. Pulling this was misguided. Sabotaged the posting on the main page.

During his career, he did more than 60,000 interviews. CNN’s Larry King Live became "the longest-running television show hosted by the same person, on the same network and in the same time slot", and was recognized for it by the Guinness Book of World Records. He retired in 2010 after taping 6,000 episodes of the show.

And they pulled it from having a blurb. Perverse process. And no credit. Oh well! That is to be expected here. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 11:46, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

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Thank you, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:46, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello, 7&6. I think you ended up on the list as a false positive. I think you can safely ignore this message. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:46, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

WP 20

Happy Wikipedia 20, - proud of a little bit on the Main page today, and 5 years ago, and 10 years ago, look: create a new style - revive - complete! I sang in the revival mentioned. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:02, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

User:Gerda Arendt Happy 20th to you. You've been here and accomplished a great deal. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 19:25, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

• Kelly, Heather (January 15, 2020). "Technology: On its 20th birthday, Wikipedia might be the safest place online". Washington Post. The world's largest online encyclopedia has learned lessons from fighting misinformation for two decades 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:37, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
• Kent, German (January 15, 2020). "In a post-truth world, we need Wikipedia more than ever". CNET. Commentary: Wikipedia celebrated its 20th anniversary today. The free encyclopedia may not be exciting, but its neutral, volunteer-driven content is incredibly valuable. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:41, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

  ... and proud today of a pic I took --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:56, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

  ... and today of Vision pictured (not by me), with Arik Brauer in the news, so art in Vienna twice, even exciting ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:23, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

  ... and today Jerome Kohl, remembered in friendship --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:31, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

I'm not sure what happened

Hey, can you look at the latest comments you added to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kristoffer Domeij and see if something happened during the edits? It duplicated some of what you wrote and split up my comment I posted. Wikipedia has been really acting weird lately with posts. --ARoseWolf 15:23, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

User:Tsistunagiska, Sorry, but I don't see it. If it's there, please feel free to refactor it. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:41, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

 Done 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:53, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William B. Ault

Your edit: [3] pasted a swathe of discussion from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harry F. Bauer onto this discussion, I suggest you fix it. Mztourist (talk) 04:04, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. Mistakes happen. That's why they put Delete keys on computers. It's already been hidden. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 11:02, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2021)

Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Lumbersexual Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Viral phenomenon • Mountain pass Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 February 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

DYK

Good morning (if the time on your talk page is accurate)! I couldn't ping you (as you're familiar with), so I'm posting here to tell you I reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/John C. England and it has some issues that require a response. I'm optimistic about their potential for resolution, but I just want to know what's going on there. Vaticidalprophet (talk) 14:03, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

 Done 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:22, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2021)

A Television Market Area is an example of a media market. This map depicts Television Market Areas in the United States as of 2013. Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Media market Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Lumbersexual • Viral phenomenon Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 8 February 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

DYK for John C. England

On 10 February 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article John C. England, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that John C. England, who died heroically after saving three sailors from the sinking USS Oklahoma, only received a Purple Heart, but had two ships named for him? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/John C. England. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, John C. England), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:02, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

February flowers

happy Valentine's! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:26, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2021)

Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Blibber-Blubber Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Media market • Lumbersexual Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 15 February 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Long time no chat!

Hi 7&6=thirteen! I hope you're doing well! I just wanted to tell you that I miss seeing you around, and that I was thinking about you... :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 04:49, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. I've cut back on editing. Nice to hear from you. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 11:47, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Rees (airman)

Prior DYK. One of the frustrations of dealing with Wikipedia. Build the railroad, and there is someone who wants to tear up the tracks. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 11:41, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Speedy keep. WP:Snowball invoked by the closer. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:41, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Just read thru that discussion, and have noted some some of this AfD activity as of late. There are some real concerns there, have you considered reporting this at ANI? - wolf 20:11, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Also, for any deletions that you disagreed with, have you considerwd asking an admin to either give you a copy to work on in userspace? (just curious) Maybe that is something that should be looked at on a larger scale... - wolf 20:18, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

User:Thewolfchild, I've copied some of them myself.

I am not predisposed much to going to ANI. I do think that there is a whole lot of disruptive conduct, but ... risk averse; I do not think they are my friend (irrespective of the merits of the complaint). I have had experiences there that were not welcoming. The AFD activities have attracted unfriendly attention from some editors, particularly those who do not like the outcomes, and their gang behavior is a fact. If you want to chat further, send me an email. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 01:00, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

newspaper.com subscription

https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/27/ you have to log in, sign up, and then go through the process to get it. Dream Focus 17:34, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

User:Dream Focus Thank you. Been thinking about this for years. User: Douglas Coldwell makes great and effective use of it in starting new articles and in his quest to get them to GA. He is a great example of a Wikipedian. He's been telling me to do this for a very long time. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:50, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2021)

The Maidi Road pedestrian overcrossing in Huizhou, southeast Guangdong Province, China Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Huizhou Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Blibber-Blubber • Media market Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 22 February 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Newspapers.com free subscription

I use clippings from this subscription all the time. It is my place now-a-days for references and sources, since the libraries in my state are closed. Mary Florence Potts is an example where I used news clips extensively and it became a Good Article. The subscription is easy to get from the Wikipedia library and it is for free (normally expensive). --Doug Coldwell (talk) 15:49, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

I've already done it. Now I have to learn how to use it.

I know you are a very effective subscriber and editor with that tool. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:05, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Great - if you have any questions, just let me know since I use it all the time and have developed some really neat tricks (short-cuts). Take a look at the updating I am doing now with Mary E. Clarke and a short-cut to keeping all these news clips straight in an article is to use the initials of the newspapers and the date for the inline reference name - for example "ref name=TAS5_17_1980".--Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:52, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Another trick-of-the-trade is to put a shortcut on your desktop for https://www.newspapers.com/ and when the library gives you the subscription code to sign in then click the box for "Stay Signed In" - so that then all you have to do is click your desktop shortcut and you are already signed in and ready immediately to start searching.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:03, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Another trick-of-the trade is to use a previous news clip reference form for your next news clip reference. Just copy it and make the updated information. Here is one you can start with <--Just copy this form and then put in your information from the search you just did. It saves you a lot of typing by just copying the previous news clip reference you did and then updating the information to that of the most recent search. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:35, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Glad to see you got the free subscription to Newspapers.com. Now you also can make a lot of Did You Know articles and Good Articles like I have done, since you now have online access to much historical information. If you need some more clues on how to use this valuable tool let me know. I'll be glad to help out.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 13:10, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2021)

Emergency management is the organization and management of the resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies (preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery). Pictured is a mobile emergency operations center operated by the North Carolina Air National Guard. Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Emergency management Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Huizhou • Blibber-Blubber Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 March 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Precious anniversary

Precious

Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:10, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

ANI thread closed with a warning

I have closed the ANI thread you started with the following summary: "There is consensus that the mergers and/or redirects by Mztourist at issue here, which concern articles about people after whom ships were named, were appropriate. 7&6=thirteen is warned to avoid personal attacks or other aggressive conduct towards fellow editors, or they may face sanctions. There is however no consensus to impose sanctions on 7&6=thirteen at this time." Sandstein 18:46, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

User:Sandstein Thank you. Message received and understood. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:48, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

User:Sandstein: Not to butt in or argue with your closure, but just so there's no misunderstanding: 7&6 did not start that ANI thread. GreenC did. -- MelanieN (talk) 02:40, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

MelanieN, you're right; I've amended the closure accordingly. Sandstein 07:20, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Serious matter regarding user

User Magnolia677 whom you have cited previously for engaging in over 3 edit wars. Has targeted me & is getting personal by going as far as reverting nearly all of my good faith edits and even starting deleting information from my town New Fairfield, CT. I came to Wikipedia to add knowledge and spread facts & help to the community here & it seems as if this person will stop at nothing to make sure I personally have a miserable experience. I am hoping you will review his actions! Thank you. Sincerely yours, Elvisisalive95 (talk) 21:22, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

User:Elvisisalive95 I am not an administrator. In fact, if you look above, I recently was chastised by WP:ANI – not my biggest fans. So your timing is very bad, and this is an effort that I cannot touch.

You have my sympathy. Sorry. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 01:31, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Murphy’s Law! You seemed like my perfect lawyer for this situation but as things unfold you’re seeming more like the Rudy Giuliani if you will of this situation! I thank you anyways & may you have an amazing week. Elvisisalive95 (talk) 01:46, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Please don't compare me to Rudi! I don't think it's a fair rap. I am not anybody's "lawyer" in Wikipedia. And throwing me under the bus like that is not an appreciated gesture.

I am not defending him; but I am the wrong horse at this time.

And I've been cutting down on my Wikipediaing anyway for a lot of reasons. Some of which are in Wikipedia and some of which are in real life. Sorry. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 02:26, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

My comments about Rudy were filled with comedy & friendly joking around I assure you that! I didn’t quite throw you under the bus I just whole heartedly thought you were an administrator since you sighted said user for his abysmal work & immature editing wars in the past! I applaud your disdain for people like that! Ta-ta for now! Elvisisalive95 (talk) 03:46, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Sorry for the misunderstanding. Cold type does not always translate irony very well. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 11:15, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

User:7&6=thirteen, yesterday I posted a query on your talk page or may be I have made wrong in submitting. It was regarding Cheman Shaik an article that got deleted through Afd discussion. I have been improving the article and did so until March 5 before the deletion took place. So, wanted to know whether the latest version of the article was taken into consideration or was done on the basis of previous discussion that went till March 2, 2021, where it had 6 Delete votes. thank you Wisdomwiki 40 (talk) 14:56, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

User:Wisdomwiki 40 I don't know. While I think I should, there is no way to know what process goes through the minds of the voters or the closers. You might ask the closer. Sorry, but speculation will only get me in trouble. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:03, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

7&6=thirteen, I've asked the closer, but s/he says that it was primarily done on the consensus basis without responding to my query. thank you. Sometimes silence has the answer to the unanswered.Wisdomwiki 40 (talk) 15:10, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Not saying it says a lot.

There are appeals from that process. I don't do them much, but they sometimes do succeed. Good luck. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:31, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Butting in here as a talk page watcher and waving at 7&6: Hi, Wisdomwiki 40. I was curious about your comments here so I looked at the AfD in question (the consensus to delete was clear, and the closer is not expected to respond to comments in the discussion) and the deleted article (using my magic spectacles). You worked hard to argue that he was notable because of his inventions, but the biography does not and probably cannot demonstrate notability for him personally. He himself just hasn't gotten much coverage. But here's a thought: if you think one of his inventions is particularly notable - you mentioned Absolute Public Key Cryptography at the AfD - you might try creating a draft about that invention, at which you would of course mention the inventor. Just a thought. If you decide to try this I do suggest making it a draft first, to see if you can really can demonstrate sufficient notability for that particular invention. -- MelanieN (talk) 17:31, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks a lot MelanieN for the attention and time, and sharing the constructive idea. I appreciate your humble entry, only few do so. I will think over it. Wisdomwiki 40 (talk) 08:55, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2021)

Frozen chicken nuggets Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Chicken nugget Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Emergency management • Huizhou Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 8 March 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Good Articles

So far this month (8 March 2021) I have made 6 Good Articles. Last October I made 34 Good Articles for the 31 days of the month. I'm aiming for 200 Good Articles for my User Page by 31 December 2021. Would you be interested in taking over the Moses Bensinger article I am bringing up to Good Article status. Here is the review. Just take over and finish it off to completion and I will arrange to get you a Good Article green icon for your User Page.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 22:46, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	Melissa VanFleet!!!!! Beccaynr (talk) 07:25, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Kristoffer Domeij

On 10 March 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kristoffer Domeij, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Kristoffer Domeij (pictured) set a record when he died after 14 tours of duty in more than 10 years as a Special Operations Ranger? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kristoffer Domeij. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Kristoffer Domeij), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:01, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for another good one! - I have one in the same set, DYK, but look forward more to the next, Peter Wollny, a first for me: while a fact was already reviewed a better one came in the news! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:28, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

March 2021

Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit you made to Frank J. Kelley, did not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. P10n3rr (talk) 13:31, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

It was constructive. I put in an explanatory part in the article, namely, the law changed under his watch. Templating the regulars is whimsical. But whatever floats your boat. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:36, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Frank J. Kelley

On 11 March 2021, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Frank J. Kelley, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Spencer^T•C 23:57, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

20401 page views. Given the subject and the lack of a blurb, that is good. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 12:08, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2021)

A hobby is considered to be a regular activity that is done for enjoyment, typically during one's leisure time, not professionally and not for pay. An example of a hobby is rail transport modelling (pictured). Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Hobby Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Chicken nugget • Emergency management Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 15 March 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Congratulations

Your DYK hook about Special Operations Ranger Kristoffer Domeij drew 36,697 page views (3,058 per hour) while on the Main Page. It is the most viewed hook for the month of March and ranks as the second most viewed hook (so far) of 2021, as shown at Top hooks of 2021. Keep up the great work! Cbl62 (talk) 17:25, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Cbl62 Thank you. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:04, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Cliff Simon

On 17 March 2021, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Cliff Simon, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 02:30, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

• 107,000 page views. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 12:12, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2021)

Two charts from an Arabic copy of the Secretum Secretorum for determining whether a person will live or die based on the numerical value of the patient's name. Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Name Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Hobby • Chicken nugget Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 22 March 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Bob Lampert

Hi 7&6=thirteen, if you keep adding these ultra-low quality sources, I plan to start issuing warning notice against you. Prabook is non-rs. It is not editirorially controlled, nor is it peer reviewed. It is the equivalent to Medium and is clearly WP:SPS and WP:NOT. scope_creep^Talk 14:27, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

User:scope_creep Duly noted. If you choose to not take this to the talk page, you are being WP:Disruptive. That you want to stack the deck while an AFD is pending does not help. And your threats are duly noted. Take it to the talk page. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:30, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

7&6=thirteen I didn't think it was heavy handed. A simple reading of the about page on Prabook would have shown how unsuitable it is as a reference, so why put it back in? I'm sorry if it was heavy-handed. scope_creep^Talk 15:27, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

We need to work together. As someone who just got admonished by WP:ANI because I said folks were disregarding WP:Before, I thought you were over whatever line there is.

I thought you were using a shotgun to kill fleas. I guess I was wrong. Cold print is an imperfect tool for communication.

I have no vested interest in this article, and my small contributions don't amount to much effort. If it gets deleted, so be it. I have not even voted at the AFD, yet. Trying to find sources is problematical.

And I have real life things I need to deal with.

I was not edit warring, and will defer to consensus. Glad that we are past that. No harm, no foul.

Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:20, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2021)

Rich Purnell mixed climbing a route rated M9 Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Mixed climbing Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Name • Hobby Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 29 March 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Bob Lampert page up for deletionLeicapic (talk) 19:16, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

I have received a notice and do have material that will update the things pointed out but I'm not sure of how to do it as someone else set this page for e ,any help would be greatly appreciated..thanks in Advance Bob Lampert Leicapic@aol.com I've attached several pictures..

Life Mag credit

File:1000794 Snapseed (Large).jpg

Calif Award

File:Picture to go with copy Life mag

User:Leicapic. Sorry that it got deleted. I did my best. Sometimes it's not in the cards. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 01:39, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Yoninah

Thank you for what you said on Yoninah's talk, - see also Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-03-28/Obituary! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:53, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. I meant it. She was a mensch! A creative force. And a scholar! Her presence was a stabilizing keel in storm-tossed waters. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:56, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Signpost Obituary for Yoninah. Well said. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:46, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. I had great help. Never did such a thing before. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:53, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

I was not aware that was your work. You can write my obituary.

Sorry, don't mean to give you an assignment. And there will be those who will Grave dancing when that happens. But I won't be here to take offense. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:01, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Your's should be easy: just a giant Dobos Torte ;) - Did you mean to give one to nagualdesign, - or Die Fliege? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:07, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

I meant to give an accolade to the editor. I may have been confused, and inadvertently missed it by a Muggeseggele. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 20:20, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

		The Article Rescue Barnstar
		This barnstar is given to you for being a constant force in rescuing notable articles that were nominated for deletion! gidonb (talk) 23:39, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2021)

A recreation room arranged as a children's play area in a Chicago home Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Recreation room Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Mixed climbing • Name Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 5 April 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2021)

Thai comics are comics written and produced in Thailand. Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Thai comics Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Recreation room • Mixed climbing Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 12 April 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Question

Heyho, just noticed this bio at AfD. A Commodore, who also Commanded the Home Squadron - reminds me of another bio that was recently at Afd. I didn't see much in the way of refs just doing a quick Google search, but do you think might anything about him via means? (books, etc.) Just curious what you thought. Cheers - wolf 03:47, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. wolf, I posted this at WP:ARS. Right now I have real life things I need to do. Will try to get to it later.

I finished editing Attack on HMS Invincible, and commented at the AFD. Out of my hands now. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 10:53, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Edit Warring

[4] Your conduct in revert warring is frankly outrageous and edit warring to insist on a non-neutral edit is foolish. Your conduct is likely to guarantee that article is deleted. Your obligatory edit warring warning.

Your recent editing history at Attack on HMS Invincible shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. 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 the bold, revert, discuss cycle 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 you 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 do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. WCM_email 14:56, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

I am not involved in an Edit War. Suggest you see the talk page of the article and respond there, User:Wee Curry Monster|W]] I am simply trying to fix the problem. WP:BRD 7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:58, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

At the moment you have successfully edit warred your material into the article over my objections on it's neutrality. And by the way you've edit warred to include a source that has been declared unreliable at WP:ANI. [5] WCM_email 15:47, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

I replied on the article talk page. We crossed in the mail. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:54, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

I also sent you an e-mail so that you could make an informed decision on how to proceed. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 12:05, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

I am well aware of Mr Philips blog, I have become acquainted with Mr Philips through Facebook. However, his material is all self-published and has been declared an unreliable source on Wikipedia. So we don't use it. In fact, the quality of most of the sources you're using is pretty poor, there are far too many WP:SPS. WCM_email 18:48, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2021)

A street performer in New York wearing a do-rag Hello, 7&6=thirteen. The article for improvement of the week is: Do-rag Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Thai comics • Recreation room Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 19 April 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Notification

Hi. In the interests of transparency and fairness, I draw your attention to a concern raised informally here about your conduct. Mark83 (talk) 19:21, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

I responded at the AFD. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:19, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

My apologies

I've been away for a while. Winters are especially difficult here and take all of our effort just to survive, generally. I held on as long as I could but eventually it becomes too difficult to continue. However, with the thaw, Summer is approaching and I feel refreshed and renewed. Thank you for your warning about the drafts I continue to hold onto. I started the one on Connie but have found little time to edit it to this point. Thank you so much for adding what you did to the article. I'm gong to try and finish it over the next month and push it out there. You are a benefit to this project and an all-around gem of a person. Thanks again --ARoseWolf 15:02, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Tsistunagiska Opinions differ about that. See the preceding section.

But thank you. Good to have you back. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:05, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

The opinions of others are just that, opinions. They are relevant in the sense they are real, however, very few have ever tried to walk in my shoes and understand the expressed views that I share but then expect me to accept their opinion as fact and adopt it into my way of thinking. That just doesn't work with me. I guess it's my lot in life. Sometimes I am the antagonist and sometimes the protagonist and I like to keep people guessing which one I am in the moment. But, in actuality, it's only a guess because no one really knows me or takes the time to get to know me through anything I have written. And why should they? I am just words on a screen. And apparently words that don't matter much, especially if I don't agree with their opinion. --ARoseWolf 15:19, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Unfortunately, type on a screen is not a good substitute for personal connection and interaction. We are all suffering from that. Folks woule not say to another's face the things they write anonymously through a computer. Sad. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:33, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Terrible articles

@7&6=thirteen: Regarding Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom's Ice Cream Bowl Tell me why do you do this? This process of updating these terrible articles, which are no more than business listings, and is the view the paid editor takes. This is the third one in a row I've seen you do, and they are rank. Why do you do it? scope_creep^Talk 18:00, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

User:scope_creep WP:Not paper You and I disagree. YMMV. Why do you harass me here? Tell me why? 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:05, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

I'm not harassing you. I'm interested on why you do it? At the moment I think the way your approaching it, is damaging you and your burning a lot of bridges. Why not improve some of these other more important articles that really need some time from an experience editor? There is hundreds upon hundreds of them. A wee while I through the Tom's Ice Cream Bowl article too look at the references and must say they are terrible. There is a level earnestness, which I appreciate. I understand that completely but is the point of packing it with so much junk? I can't understood your approach. scope_creep^Talk 18:14, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

Because the article Tom's Ice Cream Bowl is worth saving. You are right. There are millions of articles that need improvement. This is now better than most of them. Deletion should be a last resort. WP:Before. WP:Preserve. WP:Prod. WP:AFD Apparently you don't get that. The difference here is that I won't show up on your talk page to tell you that. Casting aspersions or dictating how other editors do their work is not going to make Wikipedia a better encyclopedia. We editors all are the sum of our individual choices.

And I am unconcerned about your feelings about me. I don't need your approval. If you choose to ignore 13 years and more than 130,000 edits, that is your privilege.

Your perspective on articles seems to be an affect of your geography. You do not recognize significant coverage, even as it is in plain view. This is a worldwide encyclopedia, and you ought to figure that out. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:23, 24 April 2021 (UTC)