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Ubar/Shisr

Latest comment: 8 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi - I note your deletion of the photograph of the ruins of the old fort at Shisr and am not sure of the reason for this. You refer to another caption - where can it be found and what does it say? The same photograph appears in Wiki Commons as Shisr (Ubar)(https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shisr_(Ubar)9.jpg). I know that the location of Ubar is disputed, but Shisr is exists and there are ruins of an old fort there - which is what the caption said. A quick Google search of images reveal several similar shots of the old fort at Shisr (for example see http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-ruins-of-the-old-city-of-ubar-in-the-rub-al-khali-desert-at-shisr-92220227.html). Therefore I think there is no doubt that the deleted image is of the ruins of the fort at Shisr and should be restored. The text refers to Shisr at that point, so it's correctly placed. I'd be interested in your view, thanks. Rama226 (talk) 16:29, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

@Rama226: Thanks. It was this[1] which stated as fact that it is a photo of the"ruins of the Ubarite oasis and its collapsed well-spring". I looked at the Alamy one, and it says it's the remains of a city, not a fort, although I suspect it is the fort. I did a date search and virtually every photo matching our is later than ours, which was uploaded November 17 2006, in other words everyone copied ours. Of course the Alamy one is slight different. Anyway, I've restored the one in question as it is about Shisr, not Ubar. Doug Weller talk 16:54, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
Doug, many thanks for restoring the image. Rama226 (talk) 19:16, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

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Please comment on Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016

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169.241.60.136

Latest comment: 8 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

This IP that you blocked back in September has begun vandalizing once again (see the edit filter log for their most recent edits), could you please initiate another block? Thanks. Yinf (talk) 21:24, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

@Yinf: Done. Doug Weller talk 21:37, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

LGBT symbols

Latest comment: 8 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

Can you semi protect LGBT symbols? There's a ton of socking and stuff going on today for some reason. EvergreenFir (talk) 21:35, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! EvergreenFir (talk) 22:06, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

User rights

Latest comment: 8 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Thank you for this. About other Mmhuang user rights: I have checked, and it is weird, he seems just be a WP:EXTENDEDCONFIRMED user, but he claims a lot more, when verifying his suppose autopatrolled rights it appears tied to another user, User:Modernist, why? --Osplace 02:19, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Talk page stalker: he's not autopatrolled, so the way the search link is set up, it interprets it as "find the first autopatrolled user starting with Mmhuang or later", and just finds the next user alphabetically after Mmhuang who is autopatrolled. That happens to be Modernist. There's no tie between Mmhuang and Modernist. --Floquenbeam (talk) 03:18, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
Understood. Thank you. --Osplace 04:38, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Ip

Latest comment: 8 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Greetings! An ip has been going around soapboxing on various pages and ignoring WP:NOTSEEALSO [2]. He/she has also eschewed discussion and avoided WP:BRD. Could you please keep an eye out? Kind Regards-- Soupforone (talk) 03:54, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

The user above, Soupforone, has been removing cited material and valid edits without providing proper explanation or reasoning to do so. He is also arbitrarily removing accurate links in the See Also section of some articles which violate WP:NOTSEEALSO due to unfounded POV pushing and not based on any sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.238.79.44 (talk) 09:39, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 November 2016

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A barnstar for you!

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  The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
A barnstar for you for your tireless contribution. Regards. -- Tito Dutta (talk) 12:42, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

Re Sodom and Gomorrah

Latest comment: 8 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

See also Special:Contributions/Christian_Mythology. I know from Talk:List of theological demons that that IP is the same user. While I have no problem with Sodom and Gomorrah being labelled mythical, to assert that it's only Christian mythology and completely forget about the other Abrahamic religions makes it hard for me to believe that the user is doing this out of neutrality. Ian.thomson (talk) 10:31, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

I agree. I only reverted due to the edit warring. Hard to AgF here. I see the IP has stopped, which at least is good. Probably won't end well. Doug Weller talk 11:01, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
Ack, God, I don't know what's wrong with me. The IP/Christian Mythology was adding the bit "mythical," and Melissaharvey89 was removing it. If it's the same person (which I can't justify now), it'd have to be a troll. Still, both users are, well, probably better suited for other activities. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:25, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Sodom and Gomorrah

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Hello, Doug Weller. I do not know whether you are watching the article Sodom and Gomorrah or not, but a brand new account has just shown up and is making the same edit that Melissaharvey89 was making. See here. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 23:47, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

Blocked, reblocked, realized that it's not the IP (though Harvey and the IP/Christian Mythology maybe need to hold off on religion articles). Ian.thomson (talk) 00:28, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion

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RFPP thread

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Hello, hope you are doing well. You may have a look here. --Tito Dutta (talk) 17:19, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #234

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
 
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Question/favour

Latest comment: 8 years ago4 comments3 people in discussion

Hi Doug,

I was wondering if you could revoke Maslowsneeds' talk page access. They're mounting to incivility and personal attacks depending on how a user looks at it. Claiming that you're enjoying the block is a personal attack to me. That's just me. Callmemirela 🍁 {Talk} ♑ 13:22, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

I don't agree. Blocked users are irritable, and not likely to be receptive to advice. I haven't seen Maslowsneeds write on his page other than in response. Please don't post on the page and the problem goes away. Bishonen | talk 16:11, 8 November 2016 (UTC).
I'll take criticism for my suggestion. While I do understand your point of view, I don't agree that claiming everyone is harassing him, bullying him, enjoying the block, and so on will actually help him (I assume it's a he, correct me if I am wrong) in any case. It's uncivil and can be considered as a personal attack depending how a user perceives it. The best for him right now would he ignore it. While I understand that he doesn't criticism well based on what I've seen, responding that way is not helpful for people either. That's how I view it. I certainly don't agree with a talk page access removal and then every user bombarding him with the same statements. I don't know. Whatever is the best option right now is fine by me. Callmemirela 🍁 {Talk} ♑ 16:42, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
Thanks, User:Callmemirela and User:Bishonen. Let him vent. Maybe I shouldn't have responded there either, but he really needs to read what people are saying, it's meant to be helpful guidance. And he's not helping himself. Doug Weller talk 17:06, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

withdrawel

Latest comment: 8 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Doug,

I decided to withdraw my request at ARCA as you suggested, I do not know the withdrawal pocess so I did my best by editing the request info at ARCA. KINGOFTO (talk) 16:21, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

@KINGOFTO: That's fine, it will be removed shortly by a clerk. And thanks for taking my advice. Doug Weller talk 17:08, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan

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Talk:Archaeology and the Book of Mormon

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A couple of thoughts, in the hope they might help:

I was going to respond to the dispute on the article talk page, but thought it would be unnecessary escalation. TaivoLinguist then responded [3]. I'm glad that didn't set off another round of escalating comments.

What I was going to write was that Dig deeper has basically decided to refuse to work cooperatively with others until an unrelated issue is resolved. Pointing that out could have provoked a response, so I decided against commenting.

After all these years, I'm still struggling to find a way to both de-escalate disputes like this while focusing editors back to cooperative, policy-focused, consensus-building. Some intervening editors just focus on the people involved, treating disputes as a clash of egos, putting the policy and content concerns aside. While I do believe that the personal conflict needs to be de-escalated before the content disputes can be addressed, the approach tends toward compromising policies and article content. Locking articles works, but it's seen as extreme. Asking editors to take breaks is so infrequent that the suggestion escalates most any conflict. I wish there were better, widely accepted options.

Thanks you for the very difficult work you do for Wikipedia! --Ronz (talk) 16:47, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

@Ronz: And thanks for your helpful comments. I've been busy and lost track of your post. Some very good points. It seems to have died down and it's probably a good thing that you didn't comment. Doug Weller talk 13:51, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Europaische Stammtafeln

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Concerning this source, it appear to have been written by;

Detlev Schwennicke (* 31 January 1930 in Guben ; † 24. December 2012 in Berlin ) was a Protestant minister and editor of European pedigrees.
Schwennicke spent his childhood and youth in Brandenburg and Prussia . His theological studies he graduated in Mainz , Göttingen and Bonn. In 1958 he arrived at the Palatine Lutheran Church , where for 12 years held a pastorate in Green City. In 1970 he joined the Rhenish Church and was pastor in Dusseldorf and Wetzlar , he in 1992 retired . In 1978 Schwennicke from the estate of Frank Baron Freytag von Loringhoven the Volume V of the "European family trees. The "History of the European States". Afterwards, the work of him was placed as a new third person. It was now called "European Tribals. History of the European states. Founded by Wilhelm Karl Prinz at Isenburg, continued by Frank Baron Freytag of Loringhoven. New episode. Edited by Detlev Schwennicke. "The series was under his aegis published from 1980 to 2011, Volume XXIX appeared posthumously , 2013.

Since 2008 he lived with his wife in Berlin. The couple had four children and eight grandchildren. Buried it is on the cemetery at Grunewald.

I believe this would disqualify Europaische Stammtafeln as a reliable source for Wikipedia. Your thoughts? --Kansas Bear (talk) 00:40, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

@Kansas Bear: I really don't know for sure. Its article is pretty poor. Hm, I just removed the claim in the lead, I wonder if PBS will respond. Doug Weller talk 14:00, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Demagogue

Latest comment: 8 years ago6 comments4 people in discussion

You have already been involved in issues about this page, so I thought I'd seek your guidance about this edit. It was approved as a pending change, but I fear that, despite all of the references, it still constitutes a WP:BLP violation. It also seems to me to be the sort of synthesis or perhaps original research that we try to avoid. As you can see, I'm using weaselly words like "I fear that" and "seems". That's because I'm not certain enough to reverse the approval of another editor with the PC reviewer right. Would you be willing to give this a bit of your attention? Thanks. David in DC (talk) 20:25, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

@David in DC: I don't want to get directly involved in Trump stuff. But I've given this editor a sanctions alert. I have to leave it to you want to do, sorry. BLPN. ask the editor who approved it (but read their talk page first, I'm not happy and have mentioned this to DMacks), or revert. You're certainly free to do that if you think it's a BLP violation. Doug Weller talk
I understand your reluctance and appreciate your guidance. After reviewing the talk page of the reviewer who originally approved this edit and also reading the thread on this article's talk page, I decided to delete the graf with an edit summary pointing to BLP, NOR, SYNTH and to the outstanding talk page thread, where no cobnsensus has been achieved.
I got a feeling that won't stop the reinsertions tho. :) David in DC (talk) 20:55, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
I'm not interested in delving deeply into this specific topic area, but I do agree that this PC reviewer has a troubling history with his PC actions based on WP:V and article-history/BRD/etc standards. I therefore support removal of this specific content as potentially BLP-troubling...need consensus to include, not just consensus to remove. My most recent warning to that reviewer, my second such warning and at least the third one posted within 10 days, was after this specific instance of approval, so I'm ambivalent about taking any further action at this point. @Doug Weller:, could you link to the DS alert you mentioned? @Ks0stm: you seem to have chaperoned this editor a bit, including giving him the reviewer flag. Any thoughts? DMacks (talk) 05:17, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
@DMacks: The alert was for the editor who added the material, Shoemacher. As the account!s only other edit was 6 years ago, possibly a sock. Doug Weller talk 06:16, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
Gotcha. Thought this was still in reference to the PC-reviewer. DMacks (talk) 06:21, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
@DMacks: Hmmm...I gave them the pending change reviewer right mostly because I trusted them with rollback (they are predominantly a vandal-fighter, after all), and pending change reviewer tends to have looser granting standards than rollback. They seem to be very responsive to constructive criticism on their talk page, so I would recommend bringing it up with them as a learning opportunity. Ks0stm (T•C•G•E) 08:02, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

An admin-protected Africa article

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@DW: I have been working through some Africa-related articles, particularly those related to regional religions and ethnic groups in Africa. I would like to work on Fang people, Beti people and Yaunde people. These have a complex history, but each is notable because they form the largest ethnic groups in Gabon, Equitorial Guinea and Cameroon. The location and presumptions in the Edgar Rice Burroughs story of Tarzan was partly based on these peoples. These ethnic groups are notable for additional reasons. There are WP:RS to have non-stub dedicated articles on each ethnic group (1, 2, 3, etc).

Currently all three redirect to Beti-Pahuin peoples, which deserves to be an article, but as an overview. The Fang people is restricted to admin edit only. Should its protection be eliminated so anyone can edit, but page protected to renaming /moving /redirects? Or, if the 'Fang people' title has in past or may in future lead to edit warring by 'vampires' fans, should the editing privileges be downgraded a notch to semi-protection instead of current admin-only-protection? I am ok with either. Can you reset the permissions? Or is there an appropriate procedure to follow? Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 12:11, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

@Ms Sarah Welch: I've set it to semi-protection, it's been like that since 2009, we'll see what happens. Did you read the discussion at Talk:Serer People. I think all the Serer-related articles were created or heavily changed by someone certain the old Serer religion was literally true and edited from that viewpoint. Doug Weller talk 13:23, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
Thanks. Yes indeed, there has been a lot of heat and puzzling stuff typed out on the Serer talk page by some. Sorry you had to go through that. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 15:35, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

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Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Hernando de Soto and Potano

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Would you mind taking a look at recent edits to these two articles by User:Veritas20132014 and User:BerkeleyArchaeology? I'm not sure which is correct. The cite added by BerkeleyArchaeology seems reputable to me at first glance, and Veritas20132014 is deleting and refactoring/editing talk page comments by the other guy. I don't eewant the drama of getting involved in a spat between what looks like are two relatively new/unexperienced users. Heiro 02:24, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

@Hieronymous Rowe: That "international journal of archaeology" is a scam.[4], [5] Doug Weller talk 07:20, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
Good to know, thanks. ;-) Heiro 07:30, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Unsourced moves and my mistakes

Latest comment: 8 years ago5 comments2 people in discussion

Hi. I really need your help. One user moved several pages just based on his personal analysis (unsourced and wrong moves). I manually moved those pages and revision history disappeared. Would you please fix them?

What fun. Fixed them, I hope, User:Wario-Man. but I'm puzzled about the intro using 'Ghori' first, then Ghor. Doug Weller talk 15:14, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
Thank you very much. Some issues:
  • How do I restore original names of articles when wrong moves happen? Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not work. An error message appears and say target name exists (original name of article).
  • I just restored original name of those articles (based on cited sources and accepted revisions). Because this user changed names of several article and their content. Unsourced and weird names which don't match with sources. Plus, seems that user is not interested to discuss his/her edits. 0 edits on article talk pages (except his moves) and his/her own talk page. His/Her talk pages is full of warnings/notifications and it seems that he/she does not read them. --Wario-Man (talk) 15:57, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
@Wario-Man: would you mind asking about moves at Wikipedia:Help desk? I'm busy at the moment and I think you'll get a faster and maybe better answer there. I'll look at the editor though. Doug Weller talk 16:34, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
Okay. Cheers! --Wario-Man (talk) 16:38, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #235

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-12.

  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • A new Wikidata PageRank dataset has been published. The dataset was computed in August 2016 and provides PageRank scores for 10,364,840 Wikidata entities.
    • Due to a possible hack, please consider resetting your passwords.
  • Development
    • More work on federation (phabricator:T76007)
    • Worked on first basic version of Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support (phabricator:T148139)
    • Test system for automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
    • Analysed feedback prototype for editing on Wikipedia in order to refine it
    • Worked on mapping Commons workflows and needs
    • Analysed queries used with Listeria
    • More work on making ArticlePlaceholder pages indexeable by search engines (phabricator:T117693)
    • More work on enabling translations from existing articles in other languages on ArticlePlaceholder pages (phabricator:T124036)
    • Link to local articles in ArticlePlaceholders (phabricator:T113955)
    • Fix for bug that prevented editing (phabricator:T150401)
    • Experimented with improvements for property suggestions (phabricator:T132839)

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Gonzales John again

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Check out this IP's edits. -165.234.252.11 (talk) 19:24, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

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Hi Doug Weller.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:46, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Sockpuppets

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I think this two new users (Ishtar25 and Odisho90) are related to this new user, Odisho90, who created this page Khlapieel Benjamin to promote his self. --Aṭlas (talk) 23:42, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Assume good faith

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TAG 2016

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Hi Doug - I forget if you are of the UK persuasion, but if so the annual Theoretical Archaeology Group conference is in December (Southampton, UK) which, by the looks of your involvement at the archaeology wikiproject, may interest you. Hope to see you there -- samtar talk or stalk 20:55, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi User:Samtar - I'm an American expat in the UK, and I've been to a TAG before and thoroughly enjoyed it, but it's too far for me to go and I shall be really busy at that time! The invitation is much appreciated though. Doug Weller talk 14:43, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
Such a shame! Well it'll be my first TAG so I'm looking forward to it :) happy editing -- samtar talk or stalk 13:46, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

About Something

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Hi Doug Weller

I just want to say that something is going on in Arabs. As you can see in this. Regards --Aṭlas (talk) 13:38, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi @Aṭlas: - sorry, I've been busy, will try to get to this later today. Doug Weller talk 13:43, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
Ok, thank you, and good luck with this. --Aṭlas (talk) 18:33, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

YGM

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Possible socks of Gonzales John?

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Greenman262 and Sexperson, based on edits and interest in the color green. Isambard Kingdom (talk) 17:06, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, Im suspicious of Greenman. — JudeccaXIII (talk) 00:45, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
@Isambard Kingdom and JudeccaXIII: Sorry I didn't report back Sexperson CU confirmed and blocked.. I and another CU didn't see a link with Greenman, the technical evidence suggests they are not the sMe. Doug Weller talk 06:58, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

DS

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I'm pleased to see "discretionary sanctions" applied to the Myron Ebell Page. How about Steve Bannon as well? A similar cast of editors, a similar situation... Nomoskedasticity (talk) 14:41, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

@Nomoskedasticity: Good idea, and done. We may be in for interesting times, but hopefully DS will help us keep our articles NPOV. Doug Weller talk 15:39, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Reference errors on 18 November

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Oromo people

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@DW:, @Buckshot06: Please see on-going reverts by @EthiopianHabesha of Oromo people, and the discussion at Talk:Oromo people in Ethiopia /Somalia /Africa-related article space. Please guide/intervene or suggest the procedure going forward. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 14:02, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

@Ms Sarah Welch: I'll try to take a look tomorrow. Doug Weller talk 19:25, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Password strength requirements

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Replied

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  -- samtar talk or stalk 13:30, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #236

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Unit conversion has been rolled out for the first dimension for a short while now.
    • Undo diffs now utilize language fallbacks for property and item labels (gerrit:315291). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
    • Reworked database schema for Cognate (the extension that will do automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary). It is still waiting for security review before it can be deployed.
    • Worked more on basic version of Lexeme entity type
    • Fixed a bug where the links on action=info where wrong (phabricator:T149598)
    • Getting close to finishing the groundwork for Federation so that in the future you'll be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons.
    • Added Innu-aimun as a language for monolingual text values (phabricator:T151129)
    • Worked on linking to Wikipedia articles in the statements on an ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T113955)
    • ArticlePlaceholder got a button to translate articles via the ContentTranslation extension (phabricator:T124036)
    • Prepared a bot to fix quantity values after the recent changes to precisions (phabricator:T142087)
    • Did user interviews for use cases and workflows on Commons
    • Analyzed more Listeria queries in order to figure out steps forward for easier query writing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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Hello, Doug Weller. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Sikh Nationality WP:NPOV

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Why only challenge the nationality of the Sikhs, why not English Nationality, Welsh Nationality and other nationalities?

There are many reliable sources by scholars that have written about the Sikhs as a nation. For example, [6], [7]. The term "Sikh nation" has also been used in this book from 1834 on page 28 [8]. The term "Sikh Qaum" that translates to "Sikh Nation" has been used for centuries in Punjabi literature. In the following Congressional Record, Honorable Dan Burton addresses the Sikhs as the "Sikh Nation" in the house of representatives [9]. Peeta Singh (talk) 01:59, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Could you perhaps have a look at Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia)?

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Hi Doug Weller,

Could you have a look at what's happening at Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia) and comment on how best to go forward? User:SomeGuyWhoRandomlyEdits has been working on this for a long time, adding large chunks of text that are copy-pasted straight from other articles and that, as a result, either are not about the ED period at all, or do not fit well within the flow of the text, making the article really hard to read (in my opinion, at least). He's doing this through his User:SomeGuyWhoRandomlyEdits/sandbox where he maintains some sort of live copy of the article. I've been trying to improve the contents of the article as well, by writing some new sections and recently by translating from the French WP, where it's a GA. However, the back-and-forth editing now seems to escalate a bit (I notice that I'm getting less patient), and I have tried to reach out to him to discuss things (I have tried to discuss the same issue back in July 2016 as well, obviously without much success), but I haven't gotten a response so far. I would appreciate your input! Best, --Zoeperkoe (talk) 08:56, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

@Zoeperkoe: I see the problem. I wish you'd put something on the talk page as well, but nevermind. Looking into it but I'm not optimistic about changing this editor's ways. Doug Weller talk 13:26, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Thanks! I see your point and agree; I should have raised this on the article talk page first. If it helps, I am happy to do that now before taking any other action and see what comes of it. Best, --Zoeperkoe (talk) 13:37, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your work! But you might want to look into this edit as well (and that user's sandbox; this looks suspiciously similar to what has been going on before... --Zoeperkoe (talk) 21:57, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
Zoeperkoe, spidey senses tingling but need sleep. Tomorrow I may use my magic powers. Doug Weller talk 22:01, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
@Zoeperkoe: Good catch, blocked for block evasion. The new editor is technically the puppetmaster. Doug Weller talk 11:52, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

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Hi. I just wanted to mention that when you moved this page you actually forgot to move its talk page. Is it possible for you to move that as well? Keivan.fTalk 11:29, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

@Keivan.f: Sorry, must have forgotten to tick the box. Done. Doug Weller talk 15:39, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

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Hello! There is a DR/N request you may have interest in.

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Wikidata weekly summary #237

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List of caves

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Someone wrote in to OTRS2016112810009737 - you put a load of caves in Brazil in North America section (27th/28th July), rather than adding to the existing Brazil in South America. I'll let you sort it out. :-) Ronhjones  (Talk) 17:39, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Verizon Cell phone IP block

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Doug, ....a promotional username (Verizon cellular phone IP address 198.223.226.236). Nothing more or less. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 01:50, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

A friends cellular phone IP address IS NOT a "promotional username" - to block it was wrong. Wikipedia rules allow edits from unregistered users. (Can you block every unregistered user who may make an edit you don't personally like?) Most Wikipedia editors LOVE to play TRUMP card, blocking users for the power and fun of it, who holds a different opinion on any given subject matter, or doe not share the same values. Instead I'd rather you apologize and go on your way, then to respond with vitriol. Dollyparton7 (talk) 03:55, 30 November 2016 (UTC)dollyparton7 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dollyparton7 (talk • contribs)

Doug, I'm washing my hands of this guy. I believe it is very likely this is a sockpuppet account of the indef blocked Garnerted. If you wish to do anything further, you are welcome to do so. I'm not going to become further involved as I feel very biased against this editor at the moment. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 21:13, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
@Nihonjoe: Good idea. I'm not sure it's a sock, but that doesn't matter, we'll just go on behavior. I've got the article on my watchlist. Doug Weller talk 21:19, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
If not a sock, then a meatpuppet (likely a fellow parishioner or whatever they call it in the COG). Either way, I believe they are very closely connected even if they are not being operated by the same person. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 21:48, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

Well, you admit a personl BIAS and strong desire to block me, (or anyone) without cause or merit.

I am NOT a sock, or user Garnerted. To falsely label me such, to quell your admitted bias, will be investigated. You block, and bully and grasp at straws to justify blocking without cause. It is your behavior that merits a blocking of both your accounts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dollyparton7 (talk • contribs) 21:34, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

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FYI

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Doug Weller (hopefully deleted by now), created by user Kpj78. Largoplazo (talk) 16:46, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

@Largoplazo: Lol. Thanks for letting me know. And I was nice to him by not blocking him for a hoax. I was just telling someone I AGF too much sometimes. Doug Weller talk 16:56, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
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  There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Legal threats by Dollyparton7. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 21:27, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Have you....

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seen this?[10]--Monochrome_Monitor 20:52, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

@Monochrome Monitor: no, thanks. Pretty funny. Wonder who "we" is. Probably the group. Doug Weller talk 21:04, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
You're on their list now! ;)--Monochrome_Monitor 21:54, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
IMO "we" is probably one person, a sockmaster.--Monochrome_Monitor 21:56, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

Ketef Hinnom

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Did you even read the source ? Every scholar involved in analyzing, dating, preserving and translating the amulets has stated that they date from the First Temple period, and to the 7th century. This is why they are considered one of the greatest archaeological finds in modern times.

"Dr. James R. Davila has similarly pointed out that the idea that while the scrolls show that "some of the material found in the Five Books of Moses existed in the First Temple period".

Furthermore: "Based on our new analysis and reading of these texts, we can reaffirm with confidence that the late preexilic period is the proper chronological context for the artifacts". [11] ItaloCelt84 (talk) 06:44, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Not every scholar. . "The Ketef Hinnom plaques are not only the earliest examples known verses appearing in the biblical text, but they are also important sources study of religious concepts held in Jerusalem in the early post-exilic amulets were probably engraved in the early Second Temple period, many years after the construction of the temple." A New Appraisal of the Silver Amulets from Ketef Hinnom Author(s): Nadav Na ?aman Source: Israel Exploration Journal, Vol. 61, No. 2 (2011), although this is challenged in A Rejoinder to Nadav Na?aman's 'A New Appraisal of the Silver Amulets from Ketef Hinnom' Author(s): Shmuel A?ituvSource: Israel Exploration Journal, Vol. 62, No. 2 (2012).

Synthsis & inaccurately summerised content

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Hi, in Oromo article there is synthesis and inaccurately summerised content diffs added by Ms Sarah Welch. User combined different parts of one source to reach or imply a conclusion not explicitly stated by the source. In spite of explaining in the talkpage how it is synthesis & how it violates WP:SYNTH user continues to add them. Besides, no interest on the user to edit articles based on WP:BRD and achieve consensus before adding disputed content. Thank you — EthiopianHabesha (talk) 09:24, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #238

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  • Development
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    • Some discussion on tracking usage of statements or statement groups on clients (phab:T151717, see mailing list)
    • Investigating support for Linked Data Fragments (phab:T136358)
    • We're participating in this year's Google Code-In with a couple of Wikidata related tasks
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    • Added olo (Livvinkarjala), mai and tcy to interwiki sorting order. (phab:T151449)

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Hey admin

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...check this out... 207.93.13.145 (talk) 18:38, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

User:Drmies dealt with the BLP violations at the Supermarket article, Sir Joseph dealt with CN's user page, and I've protected Cole's article. Thanks for the compliment! Doug Weller talk 19:28, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
  • Just saw you go by--I don't think there was much more to it at that Supermarket, and I don't even know if that was a "real" BLP violation, but better safe than sorry. Take it easy Doug, Drmies (talk) 19:31, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Password strength requirements

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Undue weight

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Greetings, in regards to this revert by Duqsene [12] in Oromo article is it fair to pick only one definition of the Afars word 'galli' and emphasise on it? Wouldn't that lead to misinterpreting the word to mean mainly 'ordinary people'? — EthiopianHabesha (talk) 12:43, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Protect Tokamak

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Hi Doug. Can you protect Tokamak? There is an overzealous guy there that keeps reverting a validly reference edit (sourced from the actual ITER website no less). It's not even my own contribution, but as I can see that even ITER acknowledges it, deleting it seems to smack of blatant censorship. Titus III (talk) 00:44, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Talk pages as forums

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Thank you for the admonition on my talk page about my reply to an anonymous editor's borderline-sensical attempt to start a discussion on the origins of the Urantia Book. I apologize for using such short language on the Urantia Book's talk page. My intent was to ask the anonymous editor for references to their claims before considering them for inclusion in the article; I also took the liberty of translating the non-English part of the anonymous editors message for the benefit of future discussion. Upon seeing another (or the same) anonymous user reply with an equally confusing statement as the original, I decided my further input would be moot. Xaxafrad (talk) 04:51, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

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Genetics

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Replied on my talk page. Should probably be moved/copied to the talk page of the article. --24.182.92.247 (talk) 20:47, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

Block Request

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Although i'm topic banned from participating in Punjab and Sikh related topics, being a Sikh I cannot standby and observe the dilution of Punjab and Sikh related articles.

Recently I've added "a Sikh script" to the Gurmukhi alphabet article which was previously in the article [13] but removed.

The following sources back this statement:

  • Mandair, Arvind-Pal S.; Shackle, Christopher; Singh, Gurharpal (December 16, 2013). Sikh Religion, Culture and Ethnicity. Routledge. p. 13, Quote: "creation of a pothi in distinct Sikh script (Gurmukhi) seem to relate to the immediate religio-political context ...". ISBN 9781136846342. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=79ZcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA13&dq=sikh+script&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOvoTF877QAhXEnZQKHaOKBU04ChDoAQg3MAY#v=onepage&q=sikh%20script&f=false
  • Mann, Gurinder Singh; Numrich, Paul; Williams, Raymond (December 3, 2007). Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 100, Quote: "He modified the existing writing systems of his time to create Gurmukhi, the script of the Sikhs; then ...". ISBN 9780198044246. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8R-Kl2C1C7QC&pg=PA144&dq=sikh+script&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjV1Yzx-L7QAhUMxbwKHYMkAA04FBDoAQgXMAA#v=onepage&q=sikh%20script&f=false
  • Shani, Giorgio (March 2002). The Territorialization of Identity: Sikh Nationalism in the Diaspora. Japan: Kitakyushu University. p. 11. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1754-9469.2002.tb00014.x/abstract
  • "Gurmukhi - The Sikh Alphabet". Sikhs.org. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
http://www.sikhs.org/gurmukhi.htm
  • Harjeet Singh Gill (1996). Peter T. Daniels; William Bright, eds. The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. p. 395. ISBN 978-0-19-507993-7.
  • Khalsa, Sukhmandir. "Introduction to Gurmukhi Script". about.com. Retrieved 14 November 2016.

Secondly I've removed Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic which was added by an IP. [14]

This fact is not stated in Kahn Singh Nabha's Mahan Kosh:

  • Nabha, Kahan Singh (April 13, 1930). Encyclopedia of Sikh Literature Mahan Kosh. Patiala: Languages Department of Punjab. p. ਪੰਜਾਬੀ.

Yes, Punjabis are unified by a common language, but that isn't the only factor.

Labeling Punjabis just an Ethnolinguistic group excludes that they are also unified geographically and culturally. From paragraph 3 of the article, Traditionally, the Punjabi identity is primarily linguistic, geographical and cultural, which is independent of historical origin or religion.

In terms of race, Punjabis are and have always been a multi-ethnic society. Punjab has been inhabited by many peoples throughout it's history and all Punjabi people are not the descendants of one group (e.g. Indo-Aryans).

Bishonen, although the topic ban was no less than a block, I've violated my topic ban [15] therefore feel free to block my account.

For users trying to dilute Punjab and Sikh related topics:

ਕੂੜ ਨਿਖੁਟੇ ਨਾਨਕਾ ਓੜਕਿ ਸਚਿ ਰਹੀ ||੨||
English: Koor Nikhutae Nanaka Ourak Sach Rahi ||2||
Meaning: Falsehood will come to an end, O Nanak, and Truth will prevail in the end.

- Guru Granth Sahib, page 953

Feedback:

  • Rather than simply blocking users, Wikipedia should start a rehabilitation programme.
  • This guideline should be remove WP:IAR because it leads to being topic banned and blocked.

Kind regards Peeta Singh (talk) 03:38, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #239

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    • Rework translation/article creation UI (phab:T151858)
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Best wishes for the holidays...

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Student Initiative Rahel

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{{re|Urmelbeauftragter]] how many of these are independent of the Catholic Church? I see Radio Horeb, the Cusanuswerk, a Diocese, a network of One World groups. None of those are independent. ""Hochschule St. Georgen öffnet zum Sommerfest die Türen" is simply promotional, inviting people to an event, and even though you say "editorial department" it says "The Philosophical Theological College Sankt Georgen, Offenbacher Landstraße 224, invites you to the Sommmerfest" and is written in a promotional tone. I'm guessing the Stadtkirchenfest piece is the same. Doug Weller talk 17:54, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
@Urmelbeauftragter: pinging correctly this time. Doug Weller talk 19:12, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
Do you really mean local newspapers in Frankfurt have only promotional articles? Are you really sure? If the haeadline would be "President Obama invites to a economic conference" it would be promotional, too?--Urmelbeauftragter 21:01, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
It seems to me if anyone writes about an event related to a student initiative of a philosophical theological university it couldn't be independent.--Urmelbeauftragter 21:17, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
@Urmelbeauftragter: this doesn't belong on my talk page but on User:Drmies talk page and that looks to have been a press release. Please reply at Drmies' talk page to keep this discussion in one place. Doug Weller talk 21:50, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Lie

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Hallo Doug, thanks for your edit! About "lie", is it wrong? I meant "to lie" as "liegen" in German...For example "River Po lies in northern Italy" Is it wrong? Cheers Alex2006 (talk) 18:07, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) It's grammatically correct. Idiomatically, though, I'm not sure how often a native speaker ever describes a river as "lying" somewhere. It's located somewhere, rises somewhere, flows somewhere... "Lies somewhere" is pretty passive for a river, really. StevenJ81 (talk) 18:53, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
Thanks a lot Steven! As native Italian living since many years in a German speaking context I tend to use German or Latin derived words, which is not always the best choice. BTW, when I was in the States, people told me often that I was talking in a cultivated way, while in reality I was only trying to use the latin-derived English words, easy to remember for me. ;-) Cheers Alex2006 (talk) 19:10, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
Lies in is perfectly OK, see: Arkansas River, Yukon River, etc. 🔯 Sir Joseph 🍸(talk) 19:12, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
FWIW, Sir Joseph, in both of those pages, the river itself never "lies". A portion lies, or a basin lies, or even a half lies. The river, itself, almost never "lies". But, as I said, it's unquestionably grammatically correct. StevenJ81 (talk) 19:39, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
I think my sense of the word falls in between yours and Sir Joseph’s: it depends on the circumstances. Where a river meanders slowly over a plain it seems less dynamic, hence more recumbent, so to speak; likewise when viewed from the air or an elevated vantage point, from too great a distance to see it flowing—or where the mental image being evoked is more like a map than a photograph. In general, though, this kind of use of lie often reads as slightly dated, quaint, or poetic, and would probably be more at home in a Wikivoyage article than on WP.—Odysseus1479 20:07, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
@Alessandro57: It is indeed, but what I was looking at was "The map doesn't show it, so they lie about those countries. Now, why should I believe what they say" - and that editor was using the word 'lies' in the sense of deliberately not telling the truth. Doug Weller talk 19:16, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
That's a different kettle of fish. StevenJ81 (talk) 19:39, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
OK Doug, alles klar! I thought that you were referring to my "lie", but I was lying in a different sense... ;-) Alex2006 (talk) 19:13, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Advice request

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Hi Doug! Hope you doin well! Whenever i need a dose of wisdom i come to you. I have found myself compiling quite a surprising lot of data these days on the Deer Cave(Otranto) - Grotta dei Cervi in Italy, i guess you know it - here: User:Wikirictor/sandbox2. Quality and quantity of sources are as usual with these caves...very very moderate. Still i found some complete! publications of relevant researchers. However, i think you know, there always were the ignorant and gullible around - who normally do not fancy such stuff. They created this hysteria at the fringes (Ancient astronauts, Sistine chapel of the Neolithic - which btw was initially attributed to Altamira) and repetitive pseudo-bullshit. So - i thought i dive a bit deeper in the published interpretations of two Italian ladies - Maria Laura Leone and Elettra Ingravallo - both many years into associated research and familiar with the matter, although Elettra more on a theoretical level.

My idea was presenting different viewpoints might help bring things back down to earth. Anyway, now that i am halfway through i think i am way off the encyclopedic sphere. Maybe you could have a brief look into section User:Wikirictor/sandbox2#Interpretation and give me some feedback. ATBWikirictor (talk) 12:15, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

@Wikirictor: I'm just recovering from an Openhouse at our house and trying to find everything we stored away, especially a bunch of vital USB leads, and may be busy over the weekend. I'll try to take a look maybe Sunday. Doug Weller talk 19:17, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

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Illuminati89

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You noticed the disruption this user caused too. I'm pretty confident this is another sock of User:HipHopVisionary. I swear these socks have been popping up at an increasing rate lately. He or she will always come back to the same pages/topics: African Americans and related (also sometimes Romani Americans) where they do their POV pushing, often in the form of adding cherry picked or misleading negative statistics and ridiculous drive-by tagging, and Drake (musician), where they will sort of just update the article I guess. Now that Illuminati89 has edited Drake (musician) today, that in combination with their previous edits raises a red flag to me at least. I have filed an SPI here: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/HipHopVisionary Sro23 (talk) 19:05, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

@Sro23: Thanks. I see they're blocked indefinitely. Doug Weller talk 20:06, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy Saturnalia!

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  Happy Saturnalia
Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and troll-free. Ealdgyth - Talk 01:37, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Checkuser input needed

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Came to you after picking some random entries at Special:Listusers with CU selected. Is there a CU noticeboard? I would have gone there, rather than coming to you (and a few other random CUs) directly, if I could have found anything beyond the clerks' page.

Would you please visit Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 December 8 and offer input in the {{IPsockCheckuser}} section? It was nominated on the grounds of "This exposes Checkuser info to non-Checkusers", which makes sense, but on the other hand it's been around since 2008, so if it's truly a violation, it probably would have been deleted by now. I've voted "keep until we hear from some CUs", so hearing from you would be helpful. Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 13:09, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

@Nyttend: Thanks but I was too late! Doug Weller talk 15:25, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Arbcom election results

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Oh, I see the election results are in! Offering "condolences" has been run into the ground a bit, so I don't quite know what to say. But, anyway, I think it's to the advantage of Wikipedia that you'll be on the committee for another two years, and hope you are pleased. [Has irresistible mental image of Doug banging his head against the wall in frustration.] Oh well. Cheer up! Bishonen | talk 15:31, 16 December 2016 (UTC).

Merry Merry

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  Season's Greetings, Doug Weller!
At this wonderful time of year, I would like to give season’s greetings to all the fellow Wikipedians I have interacted with in the past! May you have a wonderful holiday season! MarnetteD|Talk 16:46, 20 December 2016 (UTC) 		 

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Thank you

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If you accept it, you may move this award to your user page:

  Your Opinion is More Important than You Think Barnstar
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Exodus and abandonment of Avaris

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This is regarding you calling the abandonment of Avaris "not evidence for the exodus" because my entry contains "original research". Well, whether or not the research is original to myself, its evidence -- so the only problem here we have is regarding Wikipedia's policy on original research. And yet again, there is no problem -- as Douglas Petrovich, author of the paper I cited HAS expressed on an article on biblearchaeology.com that he finds this as evidence for the exodus, and thus the idea I added in was not original to myself whatsoever.

So, how about this -- in order to respect Wikipedia's policies, I will cite both the paper authored by Douglas regarding this abandonment, as well as his article on biblearchaeology.com. That way, the abandonment is confirmed by my citations, as well as my connection of it to the exodus being shown as not original and thus respects Wikipedia's policies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Korvex (talk • contribs) 17:38, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

@Korvex: It doesn't matter if someone else made the connection, if you use an article not mentioning it and say it's evidence, that meets our definition of WP:NOR. Petrovich's creationist article isn't a reliable source and can't be used to back his other article. Doug Weller talk 20:24, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
I had explained previously that I will cite both the paper where the abandonment is established, as well as Douglas's further remarks connecting it to the exodus. Thus, I have made no original research and we have a clear Scholarly connection between it and the exodus. I will of course not be citing any "creationist article". You seem to be confused, we are not discussing the origins of the Earth, age of the Earth, or evolution, we are discussing egyptology, and Douglas Petrovich has some of the best credentials in the entire field regarding these questions, and several other Scholars agree with him that this can in fact form a parallel between Egyptian archaeology. Douglas is a very good Egyptologist with a PhD and published on academia.edu, is at Wilfred Laurier University and is specialized in numerous fields. There's already no question that all egyptologists accept that the abandonment of Avaris occurred, but you are seriously trying to block out this for someone "not suggesting" an exodus connection, even though Petrovich himself has, as well as other PhD's and experts in the field like Bryant G. Wood, Henry Smith, amongst others. There is absolutely no doubt that many experts have made this connection between the abandonment of Avaris and the exodus. Thus, this should get its fair addition to the Wikipedia page. What I will do is cite both the paper on the abandonment of Avaris, as well as a Scholar like Douglas himself or Wood or any other I may so choose and so the citations will clearly embed both the abandonment and connection to the exodus by experts and reliable sources. There is no Wikipedia guideline that has not been met here, all these are reliable citations by top experts in the field. It looks as if the most reasonable thing to do here is to come to the agreement that this should be added to the page for there is no reason to resist it.Korvex (talk) 21:49, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
@Korvex: No, he has poor qualifications in Egyptology. You don't "publish" at Academic.edu, you can store a paper there, it isn't publishing. He is nowhere near being a top expert. Has he even finished his PhD? Creation.com calls, ab him a candidate. He isn't a professor or a junior professor, he's just an adjunct which is the bottom of the rung - if it even is a rung. Doug Weller talk 12:06, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
Doug, it seems you've been unbelievably blinded by bias. Douglas Petrovich is in fact a PhD, and indeed a top expert in the field. On top of his PhD in Egyptology, he has an M.A., M.Div and M.Th, meaning he has overwhelming credentials, more then most other people in the field. Douglas works in the History Department at Wilfrid Laurier University and has a position in the University of Toronto (best university in Canada) where he teaches Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean. If you're a historian, the UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO is a world-class academic institution that will offer you a position available to almost no other historian in the world (because they aren't at the level of Douglas). His major was in Syro-Palestinian Archaeology (that's where his PhD is, and yes of course, it's finished), and minored in both Ancient Egyptian Language and Ancient Near Eastern Languages. He speaks SIX languages, four of them related to his academic work (Biblical Greek, Bibical Hebrew, Aramaic and Late and Middle Egyptian, the stuff they spoke in Egypt some 3,500-4,000 years ago, before Arabic and Coptic). So of COOOOUUUURSE he is reliable, he has published many papers agreed upon by many Scholars and archaeologists. It's really outright ridiculous that you have to completely lie calling his qualifications "poor" (having a PhD is poor? you clearly know nothing). It's really ridiculous how you discredit these overwhelming credentials because he has a profile on creation.com. I once saw a guy mention this directly to him, and then he basically responded by naming all the countless fields he specializes in, equal to almost no other in the archaeological world, and that shut the troll up pretty quickly. Needless to say, Douglas is EXTREMELY qualified and credentialed, and 100% of all Historians and Scholars agree about the abandonment of Avaris -- I just so happened to cite him in specific, but his work that I cited had nothing to do with the actual abandonment, it was merely dating the abandonment! His paper was in response to Bietak, the guy who actually published the finding of the abandonment and as I said earlier, this is not denied by anyone to have happened in the archaeological world and academic historical community. So there's absolutely no sense in existence of disagreement. It's kind of like that dude Louis Pasteur -- he was one of the worlds greatest biologists, and was also a creationist. Does his world-changing advances in biology and his overwhelming credibility get reduced because in a different field, he is a creationist? Absolutely not. This is honestly ridiculous. The paper i cited was NOT a creationist paper, for hecks sake it was published to JAIE, it ONLY REGARDED the timing of the abandonment of Avaris. Seriously, when did this creationist BS ever get into the conversation? It seems there's no option but to admit the fact of the reliability of these citations (which again, is agreed upon by EVERYONE in the archaeological community), and get this -- I won't even cite Douglas's paper alone! I'll also cite two other books, written by people who DENY the exodus to establish the abandonment of Avaris, and I'll link it to the exodus by citing a published paper by Bryant G. Wood, another PhD in the field.Korvex (talk) 01:41, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
@Korvex: Ok, let's start with your claim he teaches at the University of Toronto. Evidence for that? I know he's submitted his dissertation, evidence that his PhD has been awarded? An M.A., M.Div and M.Th, are not overwhelming credentials and in any case they are in Evangelism and theology, irrelevant here. And you know, I don't think anyone speaks ancient Egyptian. And speaking languages doesn't in any case make someone reliable. And there is absolutely nothing that is agreed upon by EVERYONE in the archaeological community, that's obvious. Doug Weller talk 07:56, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
Ouch, it looks like the reality of the BOSS Douglas Petrovich is starting to get to you. Evidence for him teaching at the U of T (university of toronoty, u of t is how we call it here in Canada). I found it on his LinkedIn, you can easily search it up. Just search up "Douglas Petrovich LinkedIn" and it's probably the first thing that will come up (you know what LinkedIn is, right?). It clearly says he is an "Adjunct Faculty Member at Scarborough Campus" at the University of Toronto, and if you look below a little from this title, you'll read "Teaching: Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean" -- he teaches history in one of the best universities on Earth. For his PhD, I think he, if he hasn't already gotten it from what I can see on his LinkedIn, he's going to get it in a few months (as he has been doing his PhD course for just under 8 years now... meaning he's about to get it any day now as far as I'm concerned, if he doesn't already have it). But the point is, he's already published many papers into peer-reviewed journals. Anyways... You said you don't think anyone speaks ancient Egyptian. Uggh, sorry to crack your bubble bud, but if he and other Scholars can't read ancient Egyptian language, how do they exactly decipher the ancient stelae written in the ancient egyptian languages? Learning languages is PART of PhD courses. If you want to become a historian of early Christianity, especially a PhD like Sir William Ramsay, Gary Habermas, or Bart Ehrman -- you NEED to be able to read Koine Greek (language of the New Testament -- the New Testament is in Greek, yes, but Greek today isn't what it was 2,000 years ago, we call the New Testament stuff Koine Greek). Anyways, you say nothing is agreed upon by 100% of the archaeologists... Ugh... You're not correct, bud. The destruction of Jericho is universally accepted (although its dating is debated), the existence of pharaohs, etc... Come on dude. The abandonment of Avaris is not even something anyone debates. And I also found a peer-reviewed paper published into a journal (not even written by Douglas, to make your day) that connects the abandonment of Avaris to the exodus. Soo... If I cite the abandonment of Avaris, as well as this paper to connect it to the exodus, are we good? Do you finally accept it gets onto the WikipediaKorvex (talk) 03:23, 21 December 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Korvex (talk • contribs) 00:18, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
Bart Ehrman reads Italian, but when in Italy, he could not speak a word of Italian, because he has taught himself Italian as a dead language. Tgeorgescu (talk) 03:55, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
@Korvex: No, you said he "has" a position at UT, but te reality is that he had a very minor job there for 3 months in 3013, and he might have npbeen assisting with a professor's course, it doesn't give any specifics but that's the sort of thing grad students often do. And you used the word "speak", not read. Doug Weller talk 06:22, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
Three months, but was not a "minor" position -- he taught archaeology to one of the best universities in the world, and he currently teaches archaeology at Wilfrid Laurier University. So I seriously can't understand how you're trying to slice this against him. By the way, yes -- I meant he reads those languages, he can read through 6 languages, the ancient ones being very very difficult to learn. Either way, he's clearly a very credible man. And again, regardless of his credentials, I have now gathered many other citations from other published Scholarly books regarding the veracity of the abandonment of Avaris, so I will cite all these as well as Petrovich's peer-reviewed and published paper, and I also found a peer-reviewed paper on the connection between the abandonment of Avaris to the exodus (not written by Petrovich) by a Scholar, and so... It seems to me there is no more room for denying the reliability or lack of originality here. We can't waste time for ever -- let's get down to business. Are we all ready to add the edit to the Wikipedia page?Korvex (talk) 23:10, 21 December 2016 (UTC) EDIT: This will be my final comment on Doug's talk page, in accordance with Doug's request. Don't reply to me here anymore, reply to me either on my Talk page or the exodus talk page.

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Hey Doug. Thanks for the holiday greetings. Happy holidays to you too and best wishes for 2017! I see you've got collared into another couple of years on Arb Com. Tough luck for you but great for Wikipedia :) --regentspark (comment) 14:47, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

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...for which there's no Template! I was very chuffed by your greeting. Working with you is always a pleasure - so don't let Arbcom swallow you whole. With sincere respect and wishes for an excellent year ahead, Haploidavey (talk) 17:26, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

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Requesting deletion of edit summaries done by the IP. Articles Two Witnesses and Northern Campaign (Irish Republican Army). — JudeccaXIII (talk) 02:50, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

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You contacted me regarding a topic of Arab-Israeli matters, I simply didn't understand by what was meant by sensitive topics. What is required of me to do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yoseph Hakohen (talk • contribs) 08:33, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

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Hi Doug. anglo-saxons.net is run by Sean Miller, a respected historian who wrote 5 articles on Anglo-Saxon kings for DNB, but who has left academia for financial reasons. It seems to me an RS, but I would like confirmation. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:02, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

@Dudley Miles: As usual, it depends upon what he's being used for, but looking at [16] and even [17] it looks as though he is. Happy New Year! Doug Weller talk 17:41, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
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Hi dear! Why you do not like my changes in "List of modern great powers"? I add new informations and a picture and this is not bad — Preceding unsigned comment added by AzizaTuran (talk • contribs) 19:09, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

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Hello! I´d like an opinion, and I couldn´t think of an obvious place to ask, so I´ll bother you. Should articles like Abbas ibn Firnas (dead for a thousand years, probably no surviving depiction from his lifetime or centuries after) be illustrated like in that infobox? My instinct is against, it doesn´t add to understanding (though he probably had a beard at some point in his life) but I don´t know what guideline/policy would apply. Harun al-Rashid is not much better... Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 20:55, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi User:Gråbergs Gråa Sång Definitely not unless it's a famous portrayal, and these clearly are not. The al-Rashid one is by the uploader! Doug Weller talk 15:04, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
No, the al-Rashid one acually was from a work of art (you see it further down in the article): [18]. Still a thousand years to young, but at least art. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:36, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
@Gråbergs Gråa Sång: Damn. But the image information clearly says "I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license". That's got to be wrong! Doug Weller talk 16:01, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
Here I must agree with you. So that image is ok-ish with something like "al-Rashid in 19-th century german painting" under it? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:14, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
User:Gråbergs Gråa Sång Does the painter have an article? We really should say who painted it. Doug Weller talk 17:07, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
Yes and no: [19] Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:51, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
This [20] is supposed to be him too (french WP uses it), but it has no info whatsoever, except possibly "bookcover". Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:02, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
User:Gråbergs Gråa Sång still dubious unless we can find sources saying its a famous painting. It would be different if it were a real portrait. Doug Weller talk 19:28, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

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Dear Doug:

The main reason behind opening of an AFD for the above mentioned Subject was not that it pertains to a "notable" figure but because it is badly influencing the sentiments of people who truly and deeply believe in the existence of Prophet Muhammad. The reason i presented has totally been ignored. Therefore, i'd like to post it for you again:

"This whole article is based upon the false views and judgments formed by the Jews and Christians only, and the point of view of Muslims has been thoroughly ignored. The article is conveying misleading information to the readers and is nothing but a hoax. Wikipedia is believed to be a source of authentic information based upon true and valid sources and reliable evidences, however, this article clearly ignores this fact. This article is nothing but a baseless discussion which shall not be attributed to the Biography of a Special Historical Figure with whom sentiments of billions of people have been attached. The article shall be deleted on the grounds that the following references are missing: -archaeological proof of existence of Prophet Muhammad; -books written by Muslim scholars evidencing his existence; -Other Christian research and books in favor; -lineage of Prophet Muhammad; -Important and Famous Muslim historical Scientists believing Prophet Muhammad; -Bible mentioning Prophet Muhammad; -Torah mentioning Prophet Muhammad; -Quran mentioning Prophet Muhammad; - Authenticity of Quran and the scientific proof of verses of Quran; -Auliya and Wali Allah following Prophet Muhamamd; -True predictions made by Prophet Muhammad; -Letters written by Muhammad to different rulers in the world."

In consideration of the foregoing reasons, the whole article should either be deleted or renewed and edited in the manner that it takes into account complete and authentic information which fulfills the purpose of the article.

I'm afraid if no step is taken, i might have to contact Muslim Media for the removal of this article which may affect the repute and goodwill of Wikipedia in the eyes of Muslim community.

Hope you understand and act accordingly.

Thanks! Haxeeb1987 (talk) 17:56, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

@Haxeeb1987: I'm not acting, I'm telling you that it won't be deleted as there are policy reasons to keep it. Your actions in repeatedly adding an AfD template might get you into trouble. If you have other sources meeting WP:RS you wish to add, go ahead and see if they are accepted. You are new here and don't understand how we work. Doug Weller talk 18:08, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

BCE

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You are quite right about BCE. PraeceptorIP (talk) 18:20, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Ottoman Algeria

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Hello Doug

There is a problem (edit war) in this page. Can you take a look in it ? Do you know an expert in ottoman history to end this? It seems that they Violate the 3RR in 1 January 2017‎. Regards --Aṭlas (talk) 03:39, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

@Atlas: Warned the editor who hasn't had a 3RR warning. I've protected it for a week. Ask at the talk pages of the Wikiprojects as I don't know an expert. Both may have broken 3RR although one wasn't warned, anyway too many days ago. Doug Weller talk 20:38, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Oops, sorry.@Aṭlas: Doug Weller talk 20:41, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Thank you Doug. I warned the other editor, and I'm going to ask the WikiProject Ottoman Empire members. Regards --Aṭlas (talk) 21:29, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

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C'mon man...

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It would've been way funnier for you to respond to that thread on Bish's page while logged out, to continue the theme.

okay, maybe not *that* funny... 2600:1003:B002:A673:8587:B75B:C4EB:D259 (talk) 17:12, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

USC templates are broken

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It looks like cmje.org has pulled their Quran and Hadith collections offline, whether permanently or temporarily, which means that Template:Quran-usc and Template:Hadith-usc are broken. Do you happen to know if WP or Wikimedia has some special contact at CMJE? They don't have contact info on their website. This probably affects tens of thousands of links, and I would be surprised if they intended to break WP. Or perhaps you know a good forum to bring this up. Eperoton (talk) 19:11, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

@Eperoton: Sorrt, no idea. Doug Weller talk 20:16, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

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Disruptive editor

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Hello Doug

There is a new editor his mission is to change Ahmad al-Tijani origin from "Berber" to "arab", although all existing sources in the page clearly cited him as a Berber. When I warned him in his talk page. He wrote to me this message in my talk page:"If he is from a Cherifian family then this means that he is a desendant of the prophet mohamed therefore he is Arab and stop to modify and to give false information algeria is arab and the berbers are a mixture of Roman Phoenician vandal Turkish French and Arabs And the first inhabitants of africa are the Phoenician." This is my translation of his french message(a typical language-rape). This is his ip adress. Regards --Aṭlas (talk) 23:35, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

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Removing comment from talk, why?

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Hi Doug Weller, hope you are doing well. I saw you removed this comment by a sockpuppet (btw I am coming across many of them lately, and this was one of them), still it is good to leave all evidence as far as I see it. Why remove it? Regards Iñaki LL (talk) 20:06, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

@Iñaki LL: Basically to deny them the attention they often crave. And of course they aren't around anymore to discuss their post. Doug Weller talk 14:09, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Files for discussion

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regarding the ip-jumping vandalism and sockpuppetry

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Hi Doug,

I have noticed this revert and your warnings on talk pages. Regarding 87.189.128.42 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lrednuas Senoroc. You may comment on, if you want. It is actually an ongoing vandalism. Moreover, the contents that were added by ip socks of Lrednuas Senoroc were often copied to various articles by an "registered" user. I see nothing in his talk page, but i suspect that these two users are in contact. Its very suspicious. How can i prove that meatpuppetry? Because it is very remarkable.46.221.213.142 (talk) 10:10, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

209.115.202.226

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Hi,

I just wanted to ask you if you noticed the block log for this IP adress when you blocked them. The previous block was for 3 years, and they seem to have been disruptive not to far after that block. Thank you. 172.58.41.148 (talk) 22:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

On my watch list so they'll be blocked again if they continue. Doug Weller talk 13:08, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

ahmed tidjani

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well i wanna tell you when you are from a cherifien family you're automaticly Arab and it's not by giving some stupid book of someone who was born in 1970s or 80s to know where someone who's from 1700 from and i know my ancetery better than this one and if for you a source is giving just from a random book well so i think wikipedia must be full with lies because ther's a lot of books with fake information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abdera3333 (talk • contribs) 17:46, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

@Abdera3333: Nevertheless you must follow basic policy, i.e. WP:VERIFY. Doug Weller talk 19:18, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

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Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)

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Re: Hola!

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Hi, Doug Weller. I read the description of the book and I don't see anything strange, except the things about the author. I will remove the references to the book anyway. Thanks for notificate it. 4lextintor (talk) 13:44, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Harappan Civilisation

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Hello,

I was wondering why the edit considering Bhirrana to be the oldest Harappan site was removed. According to the 'Nature' report: Sarkar, A. et al. Oxygen isotope in archaeological bioapatites from India: Implications to climate change and decline of Bronze Age Harappan civilization'. Sci. Rep. 6, 26555; doi: 10.1038/srep26555 (2016).; when clearly all cultural levels are found at this site (The successive cultural levels at Bhirrana, as deciphered from archeological artefacts along with these 14C ages, are Pre-Harappan Hakra phase (~9.5–8 ka BP), Early Harappan (~8–6.5 ka BP), Early mature Harappan (~6.5–5 ka BP) and mature Harappan (~5–2.8 ka BP8,17,18,20,34). ) The report further clarifies: The Bhirrana settlement, close to the presently dried up Ghaggar-Hakra (Saraswati) river bed preserves all the major laterally traceable and time correlatable cultural levels. With such cultural continuity Bhirrana should be considered as the oldest Indus Valley site found thus far, older than the previously thought to be site of Mehrgarh?

If the article is inaccurate as you say, would you please point me to a reference that suggests the same? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kgraghav (talk • contribs) 16:34, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Copied to Talk:Periodisation of the Indus Valley Civilisation#Sarkar et al. (2016); please discuss there. Thanks. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 18:01, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

David Malpass

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I notice that you have added a note to Talk:David Malpass about discretionary sanctions applying to the article, so I just wanted to let you known that there is currently some edit warring there that may warrant attention from an administrator. Deli nk (talk) 18:30, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

@Deli nk: Very slow though, and one editor has now posted on the talk page. I wouldn't get involved personally, so if things get bad, there's always AE. Doug Weller talk 19:19, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Rev-del request

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Hi Doug, I see that your name is on Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to handle RevisionDelete requests. I wonder if you could rev-del a bizarre personal attack by an IP. Please see Special:Contributions/66.236.107.13. K.e.coffman (talk) 19:15, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

@K.e.coffman: But it shows you're doing something right!. I've blocked the IP. Are you sure you want it vanished? I have a minor troll who keeps calling me a commie and a liar, and poor Srp23[21]! Doug Weller talk 19:27, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
The IP accused me of being pro-Nazi, which I found bizarre. I usually get the opposite, e.g. "antifa political activism". Those I like to keep; the wing-nut "Wikipedia is watching you" I'd rather lose :-) K.e.coffman (talk) 19:34, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Me maybe being a little mean here, but....

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I am seeing some rather strange behavior from an editor who has had some problems around here as per his history of recent contributions here and the numerous sandboxes he has, which might, maybe, in the eyes of some, exist only as some form of fake articles here. And I very seriously question whether this page wikisource:User:Ret.Prof/Paralipomena might a rather obvious attempt to game the system here.

Granted, this editor has been subject to a topic ban, after repeated instances of sometimes paranoic behavior, and I have been involved in some of those previous instances, but I have to wonder whether it might not be the case that the individual in question might just be staying active to the degree he is staying active to keep what seems to be POV pushing content in place in his multiple sandboxes here. John Carter (talk) 18:37, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Actually, on second glance, he seems to have what appear to be quite a few user subpages in wikisource which might reasonably be seen as possible free web hosting, but, so far as I can tell, wikisource doesn't have as many policies as this site here. I note that @GorillaWarfare: is an administrator on wikisource as well, and I would be interested in her opinion regarding these pages. John Carter (talk) 21:10, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

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Concerns

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What do you think about this new user edits, especially this two edits [22], [23]. He's using primary sources (ديوان المبتدأ والخبر في تاريخ العرب والبربر ومن عاصرهم من ذوي الشأن الأكبر , Mafākhir al Barbar......). This one day account knows the "dispute resolution request"!. Is there a logical explanation for it ? --Aṭlas (talk) 14:21, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Doug, You're here ? --Aṭlas (talk) 16:08, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
Well I stoped at 2 reverts. I maked some points here If you want to check them. Take a look at this Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard. --Aṭlas (talk) 16:20, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
Can you protect the page ? and revert to last sourced version? --Aṭlas (talk) 17:01, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
3 reverts counting yesterday afternoon, but no big deal. I don't know the subject and as DRN is evidently taking place shouldn't get involved, but I'll keep an eye out. Doug Weller talk 21:38, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
Oh geez! I didn't pay attention. Anyway, thank you Doug. Regards --Aṭlas (talk) 00:20, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

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Reliable source?

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clearly fringe.[24] Doug Weller talk 06:19, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Last Glacial Maxmimum

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Hey there :) I understand your point about keeping dates in a similar format to what people are used to. In my experience, however, about half the time (though admittedly less on Wikipedia) I see a BCE date in the 10,000+ range, the author meant BP. For an example on Wikipedia, take the lead of the Bølling-Allerød article: "This warm period ran from c. 14,700 to 12,700 years before the present. [...] In some regions, a cold period known as the Older Dryas can be detected in the middle of the Bølling-Allerød interstadial. In these regions the period is divided into the Bølling oscillation, which peaked around 14,500 BCE [= 16,500 BP], and the Allerød oscillation, which peaked closer to 13,000 BCE [= 15,000 BP]."

This is the kind of contradiction I'm talking about. It's unfortunately widespread in general public texts. Most, if not all, scientific texts use the clearer BP nomenclature.

Nicolas Perrault (talk) 11:46, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

@Nicolas Perrault III: IMHO in scientific articles BP should only be used when the source uses it, and we should never try to convert it to calendar years ourselves unless something was dated by U-Th or 230Th dating which does give calendar years. I find editors doing this, not understanding that uncalibrated BP dates obtained through radiocarbon dating can't be simply converted. The dates you mentioned aren't sourced and its vital that such dates are, especially as new research sometimes changes the dates, such as this dramatic change. Doug Weller talk 15:33, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi Doug. I think Nicolas has a point. 1. I do not have access to the full source for the first paragraph of the LGM article, but the abstract refers to years ago, so the editor who wrote the paragraph must have converted to BCE and I think it is reasonable to revert to the source's usage, especially as BP is used below in the LGM article. 2. Obviously there is a problem with uncalibrated dates, but I do not see the relevance in this context. In the example Nicolas gives, the use of BCE in the second paragraph of Bølling-Allerød is clearly an error, and I have corrected it. 3. BTW in the link you give to the dramatic change, this would imply that Yukon was occupied at the height of the last LGM 24,500 years ago. The LGM article states (unsourced) that the whole of Canada was under ice then, and it would seem remarkable if Yukon was then habitable. Dudley Miles (talk) 17:06, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
I agree with Nicolas and Dudley. BP is used for prehistorical data and BCE for archaeological data. Where the two are mixed, I tend to rewrite the usage to BP where possible. BCE in purely geological context makes no sense. Tisquesusa (talk) 17:49, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
I think this belongs at one of the Wikiprojects now. @Tisquesusa:, BP is the normal way that radiocarbon dates are reported in archaeology.[25] |For obvious reasons, radiocarbon dates aren't used as much in geology but yes, BP is used in geology without meaning radiocarbon dating. If a source is reporting uncalibrated rc dates we can't convert to calendar dates, so inevitably some articles will have mixed dating. Doug Weller talk 19:16, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

need your advice

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Could you please have a look into THIS, whenever you have time. Thanks a lot and ATBWikirictor (talk) 20:02, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Vandalism : episode 2

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Hello Doug Weller,

After Ottoman Algeria, is it normal that Surena20 continues to modify the articles without worrying about references? He began again on the article of the Expedition to Mostaganem (1558) [26]. Allowing this kind of behavior on the article Ottoman Algeria where he was able to remove references centered on the subject only reinforced him in his approach. Would it be possible to make him understand that the words he uses should be drawn from the centered references (books, articles...) and not from his personal opinion ? I don't want to start an edit war with him so I let you reverter and explain to him that he must go on the talk page, please.

Thank you. Best regards, Kabyle20 (talk) 13:41, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

It was either block you both for editwarring or protect the page. I'm disappointed neither of you used the talk page to discuss the article. As for his edits at the Expedition article, it's interesting that the latest version (where he reverted an IP) and a 2012 version are pretty much the same.[27] Maybe you should post to the talk page of Ottoman Algeria? Doug Weller talk 15:38, 11 January 2017 (UTC) @Kabyle20: Doug Weller talk 15:52, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
I'm sorry if I was not on the discussion page before revert but this contributor is known in French encyclopedia to make edit without source, it was the case in the french version of the article Ottoman Algeria.
Now I have launch the discussion on the talk page [28] we don't have explanation or references to support this version.
Best regards Kabyle20 (talk) 16:28, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
@Doug Weller:
I note that there is no answer [29] concerning the misuse of references and the taking into account of references focusing on the subject. There is therefore no reason to maintain this POV version.
best regards Kabyle20 (talk) 12:58, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
@Kabyle20: The article isn't protected anymore. Note that your edit [30] isn't sourced. Don't revert more than twice in 24 hours, and even that over time is usually considered edit warring. Consider WP:DRN if there are further problems. And it's a content dispute, not a good idea to call it vandalism. I see Surena hasn't edited for a while. Doug Weller talk 14:19, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Persian Mastiff

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A newish article has been created for Persian Mastiff again; it was previously deleted after you initiated an AfD. Although I obviously can't see the old version, my recall of it is that it was along similar lines. The new version only has two "references": one to molosserdogs.com, which isn't a reliable source anyway as it's self published, but looking at the bottom it even says "Source wikipedia"; I honestly don't feel that the second ref, "Zoroastrian Kids Korner", is reliable either. I see the image of the statue is also being used again. If I remember correctly, previously there was some involvement of socks of this user? SagaciousPhil - Chat 10:44, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Vandalism only account

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일성강 (talk · contribs) clearly vandalises the pages with false edit summaries and pov-pushings. Deleted sourced additions and most probably belong to banned sockmaster Tirgil. Could you please have a look at revision history of Turan and other articles he edited? Thanks. 88.254.94.183 (talk) 01:31, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

The user is from Germany. A Korean from Germany whose edits mostly on Turkic-related topics. @Wario-Man:, @LouisAragon:, @Kansas Bear:, does it resemble somebody? Please take an eye on his contributions. 88.254.94.183 (talk) 02:01, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
This is also being discussed at WP:ANI#Vandalism and ignoring warning. For those, like me, who have no idea what's going on, I'll link this: Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Tirgil34. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:10, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

Al-Jabbul

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Hi. I saw you redirected this over last summer. Don't know enough about your concerns to mark this as reviewed, but thought you would be better to evaluate it. Onel5969 TT me 12:51, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

@Onel5969: This one looks better, go ahead. Doug Weller talk 14:38, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)

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List of emperors of the Song dynasty

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I am sorry, Huaizong is original research. Huai zong and the Gōngwén Níngwǔ Āixiào Huángdì are invented by Chinese netizen,it has no record.Kantakouzeno (talk) 04:20, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

@Kantakouzeno: Ok, but next time change the main articles first please. 16:24, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

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Cross-wiki pov-pushing by static IP

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Hi. This IP is a disruptive and nationalist pov-pusher (cross wiki). His behavior is very similar to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/EMr KnG and some other sockmasters (I forgot their usernames). He targeted same articles on other wikis (e.g. Al-Farabi, Ghaznavids and etc). Since this is not a dynamic IP, is it possible to submit a SPI case for him or check if this IP is related to a specific blocked user? --Wario-Man (talk) 13:56, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

@Wario-Man: Checkuser wouldn't work as any data for the account you mention is stale, we can't just use CU to fish, and we wouldn't associate the IPs normally with an account. We have banned IP's before at ANI, eg WP:PERUNBAN so that's a possibility. But it's a bit early, there's not much in the way of warnings on his talk page, etc. There's always WP:ANI if warnings don't work. Doug Weller talk 14:23, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
I think he's EMr KnG's ip-sock. His comments and edits on Khanate of Sibir, Nogai Horde, Khanate of Bukhara and Khanate of Kokand are very similar to EMr KnG nationalist POV-pushing. --Wario-Man (talk) 15:37, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
@Wario-Man: I still don't see it. The time zones seem different, as do the edit summaries. And I don't find articles that they've both edited. I think it's going to have to be WP:ANI. Doug Weller talk 16:24, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
For reference: User talk:DeltaQuad#Block_evasion_by_using_static_IP_address. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 18:56, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

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Peter III of Aragon

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I have started a discussion on this article's talk page. As you can see from my dealings on my talk page with Ethra2016, this editor has some issues. Would you care to look at Ethra's additions to Peter III of Aragon and tell me your opinion?--Kansas Bear (talk) 19:25, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

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