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Hi there, Maddy from Celeste, and welcome to Women in Red. It's good to see you intend to help us with coverage of activists. I see you have already created a short biography in this connection. If you have not already done so, you might like to look through our Ten Simple Rules. As you are fluent in a number of languages, you might be interested in contributing to our upcoming translation contest. Please let me know if you run into any difficulties or need assistance. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 06:11, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
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Hi Maddy from Celeste,
I saw your work on articles related to anarchism and wanted to say hello, as I work in the topic area too. If you haven't already, you might want to watch our noticeboard for Wikipedia's coverage of anarchism, which is a great place to ask questions, collaborate, discuss style/structure precedent, and stay informed about content related to anarchism. Take a look for yourself!
Feel free to say hi on my talk page and let me know if these links were helpful (or at least interesting). Hope to see you around. czar03:02, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
Thanks - but also ...
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Hi! I wanted to thank you for your recent edits preventing vandalism. However, I also noticed, per WP:SIGAPP, your signature is not currently comfortably readable. Please either change the color used or the background used. Thanks! :) Réunion (talk to me) 20:15, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
On that signature: being so long, and highlighted, it tends to dominate any talk page to which you contribute (as here) and make it more difficult for other editors to read the discussion. I wonder if you'd consider trimming it down a little? Thanks. PamD07:56, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Better, thanks - but highlighted backgrounds always seem a bit "look at me", don't you think? And even when shorter, it does make it quite distracting for people reading talk pages. Thanks, anyway. PamD18:14, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
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Hi Maddy from Celeste! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, Google Books vs. Open Library, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days.
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Hello, I noticed that you may have recently made edits to Aravalli Range while logged out. Wikipedia's policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow the use of both an account and an IP address by the same person in the same setting and doing so may result in your account being blocked from editing. Additionally, making edits while logged out reveals your IP address, which may allow others to determine your location and identity. If this was not your intention, please remember to log in when editing. Thank you. Sajaypal007 (talk) 14:44, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
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Thank you for reverting that misgendering on Gwen Araujo's page. As a trans woman that means a lot to me! Awesome to see another trans editor :D Stephanie921 (talk) 23:05, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
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Thanks for catching that. I did a quick google and found lots of articles regarding that. I was a bit surprised at the lack of major news sources. I should have checked further. It appears Moen made some observations Forbes article and the nuts took off with it. Thank again! Adakiko (talk) 09:18, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
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By the way, for future cases like this, is AIV the right venue or does it belong on a noticeboard like ANI or NPOVN? ;; Maddy ♥︎(they/she)♥︎ :: talk19:24, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
Hmm, NPOVN is more about article content. I'd use NPOVN if the case is less clear and/or I seem to be arguing against many others. NPOVN (or WP:BLPN) can then be helpful to attract the attention of experienced users who can help to enforce policies by editing the article content or joining a talk page discussion. There's also WP:COIN, but it's for "determining if" someone has a COI, which isn't really debatable in Uitvlugtandci's case. As Uitvlugtandci has clearly edit warred (including their IP edits), WP:ANEW would probably have been ideal. WP:ANI catches all other cases.
I'm not really complaining about you having used AIV, though; many users do so to quickly gain administrator attention, and your report did lead to administrative action, so I can't complain about this. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:33, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
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After your closure of the RM discussion at Talk:Less Than Zero (The Weeknd song), one of the two involved titles currently has "Than" with uppercase and the other one has "than" with lowercase. Did you intend it to come out that way? The capitalization question was part of that discussion, but was not mentioned in your closing summary, and I want to know if there is any conclusion about that aspect. — BarrelProof (talk) 16:23, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
@BarrelProof I didn't touch the other one since it was done by another editor; now that you mention it, though, I'll move it to follow the same convention. ;; Maddy ♥︎(they/she)♥︎ :: talk16:33, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
Thank you. I suggest to also amend your closing remarks to explicitly describe your conclusion (or lack of conclusion) about the capitalization. I plan to submit a multi-article RM for all remaining uppercase topics, so it is important to me to have clarity about the outcome of that RM on the capitalization question. That outcome will be the basis of my upcoming RM. — BarrelProof (talk) 16:42, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
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The majority of Adıyaman's population is not Kurdish, the majority of the population is Turks, another majority is Zazas, only the range village is a predominantly Kurdish place.
@Burtigin I really am not involved in this issue at all. I just saw you delete information about Kurds in Turkey without any explanation, so I reverted it. You should use edit summaries to explain why you are removing text. Regards, |Madeline.21:16, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
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Hello, Maddy from Celeste,
I don't believe you have enough editing experience and experience working in the AFD area to be closing deletion discussion, especially on sensitive subjects. If you intend to do this again, please review Wikipedia:Non-admin closure and make sure that you understand when an RFC or AFD closure can be done by a non-admin and when it is a better idea to leave that task to an administrator or more experienced editor. Thank you. LizRead!Talk!01:44, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
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Something similar happened to be a few weeks ago, a random insertion of text, its like some kind of bizarre shortcut being activated with out knowledge of it. So maybe a bug of some kind. Slatersteven (talk) 17:28, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
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Hi - when a article contains a direct quote, please don't change the wording of it even if you think it contains a grammatical error. The only time you should change the wording of quotes is if you have checked the source, and found that someone made a mistake when transcribing it (or if it's been vandalised of course). Cheers GirthSummit (blether)10:30, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
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@Shirin1988: to be honest I'm not that well-versed in the articles for creation process, but here you need to show that the subject of your draft is notable in the Wikipedia sense of the term. That means you need to find sources that are independent of Taha that have written something significant about him. Madeline (part of me) 22:11, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
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Hi, a while back you edited the CIB article removing promotional language. I wanted to let you know that I've nominated it for deletion here after looking for sources to justify its continued existence and not finding much. Jtrrs0 (talk) 19:23, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
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Nice job on this, thanks for your work. Normally, Normally I'd have a look and make some tweaks or additions, but I'm snowed under, so no time just now. Here's one tip you may (or may not) find interesting: look up markedness. I think you'll see the applicability right away, although there may not be anything out there yet linking the concept to cisnormativity, but there will, in time. It's the reason that the statistically variant/minority term gets named first, and happens in all areas; some unmarked terms include landline, surface street, cisgender, and endosex. Anyway, just keep this on deep background for now, until there's a source about it. Good luck! Mathglot (talk) 03:55, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
After looking around a bit, the closest I found was a reference to markedness (in its more usual inflection, marked or unmarked) near a reference to cisgender, and I wasn't surprised that it popped up on Serano's blog, here. Our article Cisgender credits someone else with making that connection, which is fine, but at least it mentions it. Mathglot (talk) 03:59, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for that! I just did some cursory looking, and also couldn't really find any sources that directly connect cisnormativity and markedness. Bauer et al. (2009) credits Whipping Girl for pretty much the same idea, which I'll try to work into the article once I take time to actually read through the book and locate where it's presented, but ctrl-f suggests that Serano didn't directly employ the language of markedness there. Madeline (part of me) 12:29, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
My edit was not wrong
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Deep frying is actually unhealthy and should only be enjoyed in moderation. Not sure how this is disruptive. You don't own Wikipedia, remember that. Taco Supreme Fries (talk) 19:22, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
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Hi there,
I am increasingly distressed by some edits to the Wikipedia page about my work. I raised this earlier today and the issue was resolved. The material has now been added again. This material offers an unbalanced and negative view of my work -particularly as it is featured at the top of the article. The material is clearly added by a soap fan who wants to tarnish my reputation. Can you please advise how this can be rectified as this feels like being remotely bullied. Robhaywood10 (talk) 22:49, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
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you reverted an update of the page made by NoHateInGA. I reviewed the content posted by NoHateInGA and found it to be factually true and in agreement with the cited source. This was a big deal in the Georgia legislature this week. What gives with taking this content down?! Based on your page and background this is even more surprising. CogentCrusader (talk) 03:01, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
Based on your page and background this is even more surprising.
Are you insinuating that because I am queer, I should not care about Wikipedia policy? If this is the attitude you're bringing here, I strongly suggest you don't. ■ ∃ Madeline ⇔ ∃ Part of me;06:57, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
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Love that "Live footage of me reading the latest ANI hellthread" picture on your user page, by the way. Have you paid a visit to EEng and the museums recently? Ritchie333(talk)(cont)20:03, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for quality articles such as Cisnormativity, Lucile Abreu and Transgender history in Finland, for welcoming new users and dealing with move requests, for not only bravely closing the umptieth Mozart RfC but even following through afterwards, for a clever April Fool and a section "Things to do when demotivated" - Madeline, you are an awesome Wikipedian!
great to meet you! - in response to the "invitation" to the Mozart RfC on Classical music, I wrote a little timeline of what has been styled as a war (in 2005) (and I thought it was over at least by 2018) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:03, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
I find it absurd how heated people get over little rectangles with some words and numbers in them. Honestly, I didn't quite understand your ACE2022 questions either at the time; "infobox wars" seemed like a thing that would've happened way in the past; but the senseless hostility during and after what I thought to be a relatively straightforward RfC over an aesthetic choice showed me wrong. ■ ∃ Madeline ⇔ ∃ Part of me;09:30, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
check out Robert le diable, perhaps? - A user puts a "retired" tag on his user pages, and I am blamed and requested to change my actions that he called disgraceful: Where are we in 2023? When another of these users who are somewhat more superior left, a great arbitrator said that he is a big boy and his decision is his decision. - I see infoboxes with rounded corners, btw, thanks to Br'er Rabbit --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:46, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
People are strange. That actually prompted me to make a userscript that removes infoboxes while preserving the images. These infobox disputes seem to mostly be about the readers (most of whom don't install userscripts), though. ■ ∃ Madeline ⇔ ∃ Part of me;12:56, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
I haven't seen a reader complain about the presence of an infobox yet. I added one to Robert le diable because it was on the Main page that day, and more readers than the selected few of normal days would see it. L'Africaine by the same composer has one, but we should serve the personal interests of a specific writer who likes it differently? I think the disputes are mostly about the writers, and that's what's wrong with them. I believe that we might begin to treat infoboxes like other content, and I'm not the first to think so. - You could offer your script to Smerus. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:49, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
I haven't seen a reader complain about the presence of an infobox yet. – I meant that the people opposing infoboxes likely do so because they think they're detrimental to readers' experiences at large, not just their own. Treating infoboxes "like other content" I definitely agree with. I've linked the script in the discussion above, where someone wondered if such existed. ■ ∃ Madeline ⇔ ∃ Part of me;13:54, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
seen, thank you, but only after this - I run my watchlist backwards ;) - the editors who find infoboxes detrimental to readers' experience possibly don't know what a script is, nor what tada means ;) - The best description of their attitude was quoted in Jenny Lind: an "eyesore in our beautifully crafted article", - I'm not making that up. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:01, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
Today, Johanna Geisler. - I just looked up - for the first time ever - contentious topic infoboxes. In a nutshell: I don't believe they are still contentious. Not the boxes, - the 2016 arbcase on which the CT designation was based was not about yes or no, but only civility. But not even civility: it has improved greatly. Could you tell the arbs, perhaps? Even I could, not having been a party in 2016. We should really get to normal editing in the field. Geisler sang a premiere by Korngold. The composer has an infobox since 2014, and nobody complained. Mozart: I think that not only were there many more voices supporting, - there was especially the voice of reason, Voceditenore, refuting all arguments on the table. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:38, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
ps: I'm concluding that CT information should not be given to users simply discussing infoboxes, only to users who seems in danger of not doing it in civility. What really made me smile is that the user who saddened me by the "Wehrmacht" edit - one of the authors of Messiah, to make it worse - gave a nice infobox to Geisler's husband. I keep hoping ... --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:46, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
In my opinion any topic area where a seasoned editor will unabashedly invoke the Third Reich in reference to people who disagree with them ought to be a CT. With regards to alerts, it's a fine line between handing out too many and handing out too few. ■ ∃ Madeline ⇔ ∃ Part of me;11:38, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you! - I heard pleasant music today - did you know a string quartet with two cellos (and no article yet in English? - I nominated Soňa Červená for GA just to give her a bit more exposure. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:51, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
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not by the fact that there are transphobes on Wikipedia. But by how many are willing to at least partially excuse transphobia because they self-admittedly have a good relationship with the person in question, or because the editor has been around (being transphobic) for a long time. I also disappointed by how many people see trans people as a topic area, that think it is okay to be transphobic as long as you do it under a topic which is not about trans people. I am equally disappointed that there are respected editors here who believe that being transphobic and being against transphobia are equivalent.
I placed a wikibreak template on my user page hoping to take a step away and let things fold out and hopefully let myself heal. Then I cleaned up some promotion from an article. Just now I reverted someone for using unreliable sources. I am not taking a wikibreak, but I continue to claim so. The things I mentioned feel like a duty to me, and like second nature. But those are not why I edit, not anymore. I edit to work together with other, reasonable, experienced editors to make and keep articles that are accurate, balanced, and beautiful. But it is exactly this I am taking a wikibreak from. My sense of purpose here has met a crisis when so many of the people who may talk perfectly reasonably, some of whom I've even looked up to, without daring or probably even knowing to say it, see me and my community as second-rate people, and our protection as contingent. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH)20:41, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
Tim riley there seems to be mistaking his own opinion on how the article should look for a consensus, which in fact does seem to exist on the talk page. I am not convinced, however, that WP:CANVASSing would do better at convincing him. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH)11:55, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
It kind of defeats the point of getting an independent view if one of the sides chooses who provides the independent view ;-). Maybe it's starting to be WP:ANI or WP:AE time, but I don't feel like looking into that enough right now. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH)09:29, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
I have not taken a good colleague to a noticeboard (this particular one invited me for Messiah, and we wrote Fauré's Requiem together), and don't plan to ever do it. - I still believe that you might be in an independent enough position to educate about what makes a consensus (regardless of which debate), but nevermind if you ca use your time more constructively elsewhere. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:17, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
Glad to see the wikibreak was so short. Your contributions to Wikipedia are widely appreciated. Keep up the good work!--Ipigott (talk) 08:29, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
Routine cleanup is something that comes to me almost instinctively at this point. I still need to reflect a lot over how I feel about so many editors, some of whom I respected very much, seemingly taking transphobia to be a topic area problem rather than bigotry unacceptable everywhere. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH)08:53, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
I first registered in 2013, and I've seen a lot of improvement since then. I see a lot more out Wikipedians than I did ten years ago. I watched from the sidelines during the Manning ArbCom case and saw editors get halfhearted slaps on the wrists for all sorts of transphobic nonsense, and I see editors getting immediate AE TBans for similar edits these days. Ten years ago, MOS:ID was a redlink and 100-kilobyte flame wars were fought over how to describe transgender individuals. On today's Wikipedia, edits that misgender trans people are reverted on sight, and the responsible editors given templated warnings. (Yes, I've used this one myself.) I'm hopeful that this community will continue to improve, but I understand that improvement sometimes just isn't enough. I'm a cishet dude, but I've experienced my own share of frustration with the culture here on Wikipedia, and it isn't hard for me to imagine that it'd be very difficult to find the motivation to edit here when you have to deal with the same bullshit here as you probably do IRL. I've seen the good work you do here and I'd like to see you continue doing it, but I can't fault you if you decide that it's just not worth it. Either way I hope you know that, while I'll never truly understand what you're dealing with, I'm sympathetic to your frustrations and I hope things get better. — SamX [talk·contribs] 02:53, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
I don't want to play this old trope, because it doesn't sound sincere, but ... some of my friends are transgender and I have seen vile and abusive crap been thrown at them in a manner that makes me throw my hands up in despair and shout "you do realise this person you're throwing this at is an actual human being too, you know?" I've also seen the good work you do around here, and the commitment you have to the project, and I think you have more allies here than you might realise. Ritchie333(talk)(cont)12:05, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, maybe instead of collapsing it the way Yae4 did, if you want to collapse it, maybe collapse *just* the list of diffs, with a title like e.g. "List of diffs as evidence", or something like that. I could make such an edit myself, if you wish.Libreleah (talk) 17:48, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
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Hey Maddy. I've got a couple of changes I'd like to suggest to your uw-gender series of warning templates.
Recently we updated the first paragraph of MOS:GENDERID to make it state that we should refer to a person by both the name and gendered words that reflect their most recent gender identity, instead of just gendered words. Could we update your templates to reflect that change?
Secondly, in uw-gender3, you've added [[:{{{1}}}]] so that Twinkle can pass in the relevant article title. Could we add that to uw-gender1, 2, and 4 as well, and then make it an optional parameter similar to how it works for the {{Uw-vandalism1}} series? If you don't know how, I'd be happy to make the change with your permission. I'd also be happy to add the polite Hello, I'm [username] to uw-gender1 at the same time, if you think it would improve the template. Sideswipe9th (talk) 19:18, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
And done! If you want to see them in action, I've just tested them on my own user talk page if you want to see what they look like. All four templates now allow Twinkle to pass through the relevant page name, as well as a optional extra message from the user issuing the warning.
Cool! I made one small tweak to it, to include the {{{2|}}} for the |extra= parameter, as that's what allows Twinkle to pass through the optional message when you're issuing the warning.
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Hi Madeline! I was recently in the small Alaskan fishing village of Ninilchik and took a photo on my iPhone of a welcome sign outside the entrance of said village. The sign has a short description of the history and founders of Ninilchik, and I noticed that a photo of the sign was not on the village’s Wikipedia page. If it is no bother, I would appreciate some guidance as to whether I should upload the photo, where I should do so, as well as anything else that may help. I am new to editing Wikipedia and I am not an expert on this subject. I was unsure of how to upload the photo here for reference, so I would appreciate it if you could inform me on how to do that. I thank you immensely for your time and I again heavily appreciate your help. --Slamforeman (talk) 20:57, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello, @Slamforeman! I apologize for the slight delay in my response; I have been busy elsewhere and didn't see this message. The place to upload an illustration for Wikipedia depends on its copyright status. In most cases, to use an image on Wikipedia, it either has to be in the public domain for one reason or another (usually because the author died a long time ago), or you have to have permission. In that case you should upload to Wikimedia Commons. The other case in which an image can be used here if it meets all of the non-free content criteria. In that case, it should be uploaded to the Engligh Wikipedia only, which you can do here.Now as for your photo of the welcome sign, you did take the photo, so you have permission and should be fine on that front. However, since you took a photo of the welcome sign, your photo is probably a derivative work thereof. This means you also have to consider the copyright status of the sign itself. This gets very messy very quickly. One simple case is that if it was put up by an agency of the US federal government, it's in the public domain. Else, most likely not. If the content of the sign is very trivial, you might be able to argue that it is too simple to attract copyright. Otherwise, you would probably need to get permission from the sign's author to upload your photo. Here is the procedure for that case. Finally, it probably wouldn't pass the non-free content criteria, as a photo of a welcome plaque is far from essential for an article about a town.If you have further copyright-related questions about a specific image, you can also ask at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Also, if you ever ask me a question here and don't get an answer after a few days, or otherwise want input from others than me, you can post at the Wikipedia:Teahouse or Wikipedia:Help desk. Happy editing! -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH)12:11, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
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I found this certain moss in the Northwoods of Wisconsin while hiking last week. The article doesn't state they would be anywhere near there. How do I edit the article to include this? --Rschubert9807 (talk) 01:22, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hey again Madeline! I’d appreciate your advice on something.
I was reading the Wikipedia article about Monica Witt, an American citizen and Air Force veteran who defected to Iran and is now a fugitive from justice.
I noticed that her photo in her “quick facts” was quite poor quality, being grainy and blurry. It also undated, with the metadata for the photo saying it could have been taken at any point of when she served in the Air Force. But, regardless, there is another problem with the photo I believe to be more important.
The photo of her is from her time in the military and prior to her conversion to Islam. I am not Muslim myself, but as far as I am aware, it considered disrespectful to show a Muslim woman not wearing a burka, outside of private spaces.
My question is if the photo should replaced or moved, with this photograph from the FBI website and the poster concerning her, taking it’s place. It is much higher quality, depicts her wearing a burka, and is more recent, which I think would help if she was ever spotted. I also believe it is not copyrighted, which also helps.
Again, I would appreciate any guidance you can offer here. Although she is certainly a bad person, I believe this would help with respectability. I considered asking this question in the Teahouse, but I held off for now, for fear of provoking Islamophobia.
@Slamforeman: According to the copyright notice linked from that page, any content is in the public domain unless otherwise noted, and I don't see anything to the contrary on that photo, so I think it's PD. Given that, there's no reason not to use a better and newer photo over an older and worse one. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH)22:01, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
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I re-read your advice on how and whether to do so, and realized that it most likely fits the too simple for copyright criteria, as well as the other rules, and so I decided to upload it. Just thought I should say here. I thank you again for the suggestion and I hope you have been well. Slamforeman (talk) 16:01, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
I feel I should add more context. Other welcome signs like this one or this one are under own work licenses with no issue, and they are much more complex. As for if it is notable enough to go up on the page for Ninilchik, I don’t think it has too, only that it would be good for it to go up on the commons. Kind regards, Slamforeman (talk) 16:13, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
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My description of Special:Diff/542355419? A weird quasi-infobox that I assume nobody genuinely wanted there was turned into a normal infobox. I'm not sure what to think about your insinuation that this conflict will end with a cremation. P.S. Be it said I have just !voted for deleting an infobox. fight me about it ;3 -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH)21:05, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
The pic that I just love is by member of the outcast #2, banned. I was named an infobox warrior when I restored the preferred version weeks after an edit war, for a mass ;) - the lovely discussion is still on the talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:52, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Maddy, hope you're doing well. I saw that you closed the Sommer Ray discussion for exclusion on both fronts, but would you be able to provide me with an explanation on why you closed both as consensus against? Most editors expressed trimmed down inclusion of Set B. InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 16:58, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi @InvadingInvader! I count one (you) in favour of including both, two in favour of excluding both, one for conditionally including B, and one for either conditionally including B or excluding both. I read this as consensus for excluding both. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH)17:07, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
The !votes for excluding B both cite the reliability of the sources as a reason, while the one for conditional inclusion does not address the reliability issue, instead going for a WP:OSE-kind of argument. I think this moves it out of no consensus. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH)17:49, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the clarification. To what extent did you take into account the additional publication from Glossy magazine provided in the discussion section? InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 17:52, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
I registered it, but did not consider it to have swayed the debate much given that neither of the editors who acknowledged it did not amend their !votes in response. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH)18:01, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
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As the proposer of the RFC on Israel article, I would like to begin by genuinely thanking you for the effort you put in the closing. You clearly took your time to read all the arguments and decide accordingly, which unfortunately is a rarity these days.
I saw in the closing message the words that there is "no consensus either for or against inclusion". I feel this has been considered as voting, which doesn't follow the consensus guideline: "Consensus on Wikipedia does not require unanimity (which is ideal but rarely achievable), nor is it the result of a vote. Decision making and reaching consensus involve an effort to incorporate all editors' legitimate concerns, while respecting Wikipedia's policies and guidelines."
As you can see apart from the fact that users of a particular viewpoint have been canvassed, they did not base their arguments on Wikipedia policy, as you well-articulated in your closing.
Determining consensus: "Consensus is ascertained by the quality of the arguments given on the various sides of an issue, as viewed through the lens of Wikipedia policy."
I feel there has been no good counterarguments given to the main argument that the lede summarizes the body per MOS guideline; since we do have a section on apartheid in the article.
Hi, Makeandtoss. Thank you for your message. Closing this rfc, I considered these points quite thoroughly, in my mind. Had I treated the rfc as a vote, I would have closed it as a clear consensus against inclusion, but that is not what happened. I took the concerns about canvassing seriously, and asked at WP:DFD for advice on how to take that into account. While reading the discussion, I paid particular attention to the policy basis of the comments, and discounted many opposes on that basis – seven, if I remember correctly. I further checked for WP:SPAs and such, but the extended-confirmed restriction proved good at weeding those out beforehand.At this point, I did actually initially lean towards closing with consensus for inclusion, because I did feel that the support arguments were still stronger than the remaining opposes. However, since that would have been a close very strongly against the numbers, I reread WP:NHC to ascertain myself, wherein is contained an instruction to not let one's own ideas of which policies are relevant determine the outcome. I pondered over this for a while, and concluded that while I disagreed with the oppose arguments, they were not in plain contradiction with policy or otherwise irrelevant. As a closer, I ought not to rule on which of several interpretations on how policy should be applied in any given case is the most correct. I allude to this in my closing statement: All considered, after discounting clearly irrelevant comments, there was a rather even split of voices for and against inclusion, and on the policy-merits, neither can be said to have been so unambiguously right or wrong to declare a consensus here.TL;DR: I agree that in my view the support side had better arguments, but it would have been a supervote to close that way. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH)15:55, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
The numbers wouldn’t have been a problem considering canvassing that took place. Also even without canvassing, the NHC policy you cited gives you the mandate to decide based on the result of the debate: “The closer is not expected to decide the issue, just to judge the result of the debate, and is expected to know policy sufficiently to know what arguments are to be excluded as irrelevant”. Also considering that super vote is an essay not a policy. In short, deciding for inclusion would have been considered as you having been convinced by the pro-addition arguments, rather than having a pro-addition stance yourself. I’m hoping for your kind reconsideration, as it would not only give back the lede its proper role that of body summary (since they clearly objected to any mention of apartheid and not its phrasing; which is against manual of style), but also dissuade online groups from making these counterconstructive canvassing disruptive behaviors. Makeandtoss (talk) 16:03, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
Regarding canvassing, I made sure to close very carefully due to that, but as a closer, there's not a magic tool against canvassing; I can't just subtract, say, 5 votes from one side because I suspect canvassing. I remain convinced that closing as no consensus was the right choice: I used my knowledge of policy to exclude irrelevant arguments, and after doing that, there was no consensus either way. You are welcome to post to WP:AN to challenge this closure, in which case uninvolved editors will judge whether I closed correctly. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH)16:11, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
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Please reverse this edit, for further consideration. OK, as a major contributor to the article I should have been aware of the move request - but, I wasn't, I've been busy, and as a general point it has been moved on the basis of a very small number of !votes (2 to 1) after a short (one week) opportunity for discussion. The article does not, never has, and never should, cover the "History of rock and roll". That raises all sorts of issues about the term itself, and the period to be covered - it could extend until the present day, and into the future. No, the article is very specifically about the Origins of the genre as it emerged in the 1950s, and the previous decades. The article is most definitely not about its later history, since the 1950s. The title "History of rock and roll" is quite simply wrong or at best highly misleading, and I would like that opinion to be expressed on the article talk page before any final decision is taken. Ghmyrtle (talk) 14:33, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
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Just a side comment, I will do discussion on her Article rather than here.
Sophie did superb work. I want her achievements to be genuinely recognized. Doing WP:OR will make her actual work suspect. That can be counter-productive. BlueWren0123 (talk) 17:06, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hello. I noticed your closure of a discussion I participated in. I'm not personally big on the idea of closing discussions, but WP guidance and policy obviously matters more than my preference! I looked up what I could (I've never been a highly active editor, so I don't know all the nooks and crannies of this place).
Anyway I didn't find anything about closing a discussion because of the topic. You cited WP:FRINGE but I suspect that applies more to articles.
In WP:CLOSE there is the guidance that "most conversations do not need to be closed."
Reasons for closure include when the discussion is stable, with the caution: "The more contentious the subject, the longer this may take." The discussion you closed is certainly a contentious subject, and of course stability was not the reason you cited.
The essay WP:ACD advises making this decision only on matters on which one can truly be impartial. Your own user page shows a high level of advocacy on topics related to the closure.
Your perspective is valuable here, and you appear to be an accomplished contributor. You must know very well what makes Wikipedia great and what threatens this greatness, so I respectfully request that you consider taking a more cautious approach to discussion closure.
Hi. My closing there was based on WP:TALKOFFTOPIC, which advises to collapse nonpertinent sections. Speaking from experience, these kinds of posts tend to attract irrelevant WP:SOAPBOXing about personal opinions. Obviously I have nothing against you starting a new section to propose concrete, reasoned changes to the article. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH)20:14, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
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I appreciate your response. I've often wondered why some pages on Wikipedia are protected. Could you help me understand the specific restrictions or constraints that lead to the protection of certain pages? I'm curious to learn more about the reasons behind this practice. Thanks again! Best, Natalie (talk) 21:47, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Maddy
I was an Ear, Nose and Throat physician until the age of 70 when I explored entering the movie production industry and now have been the executive producer of three films. One is now streaming on Showtime, The Movie Channel and Paramount Plus.
I am proud to state that my advanced age was not a deterrent to my successful new career. I even had a speaking role opposite Brandon Routh (Superman) in our last film; The Redeemer.
I think this might give hope and motivation to other retired follks.
However, I am not certain how to put this together.
May I draft a document and email it to for friendly advice?
Thanks so much.
Steve Schrager, MD --Executive Producer Steve (talk) 19:52, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hello Maddy, How do I create a page for myself on Wikipedia? I will be 80 this year and I am about to publish my first book this coming summer. I have lots of others previously written that will be published as quickly as possible and I hope to leave a detailed account of my works after I am gone. --Robert Anthony Carswell (talk) 09:10, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
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I want to edit a page for a game which I have, however, the sites where I can find citations are restricted for me. Is it possible to expand the article, and then have it missing citations, where someone else can cite it? --Fixthatonething (talk) 23:37, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
As the original registry for the Nigerian Dwarf and San Clemente Island Goat in USA and Canada, I would like to add some history. How do I do this and also list my registry as a source?
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Hello,
A wikipedia page on the person of interest and honor that I want to write about is already in German. Do I add to that page or create my own. This artist deserves a page in English as the artist created and lived in the United States, although traveled with a jazz musical group. --JDShutman (talk) 21:50, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi, @JDShutman. You can do either, or both, as you please. Do note that the requirements for a subject to qualify for an article, known amongst wikipedians as notability, is different between the English and German Wikipedias. I would recommend you to read the page Help:Your first article, if you wish to create an article about this person in the English Wikipedia. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH)22:57, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
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I've been copyediting a few articles, and am trying to work on removing promotional content. Is there any way to find articles marked as biased, so they can be objectivized?
(I'm new to Wikipedia, if that incorporates) --Fixthatonething (talk) 03:55, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
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An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
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Greetings Mentor Maddy,
Please I need your support to help review, edit and publish an article written by my daddy on the history or origin of our quarter in town Ezi. He requested that I help publish. I really don't know how to go about it.
Would you mind providing your mobile phone number so we can discuss it.
Many thanks
Regards
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Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531
I personally happen to agree with both the argument to move in the original RM and with the overturn side in the MRV. However, the discussion did not result in a consensus to overturn. Points that particularly influenced my close were the balance of !votes among uninvolved editors, and the in my opinion irrelevant arguments invoking the closer's non-admin status from the overturn side. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH)07:27, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Can you please elaborate why you think it's irrelevant? The arguments cited WP:BADNAC: 2. "The outcome is a close call (especially where there are several valid outcomes) or likely to be controversial." Makeandtoss (talk) 14:16, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
I believe the purpose of Wikipedia:Move review is to discuss closures, not closers. That essay's suggestion may be useful to avoid bad closures being made, but saying a closure should be overturned because it was too contentius for a non-admin closure is, on its own, a not a strong argument. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH)21:29, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Even if it weren't a strong argument, it was still stronger than the arguments that supported the closure as they did not cite any guideline or essay in their reasoning, having actually barely elaborated on their responses beyond "endorse". Would you consider at least extending the discussion on the move review page? Makeandtoss (talk) 10:52, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
A little relevant argumentation is better than lots of irrelevant argumentation, and I do not agree that all "endorse" !votes barely elaborated on their responses. I do not think reöpening would be beneficial considering that I closed it a whole week after the last !vote. My overall impression remains that no consensus was achieved during the discussion. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH)17:02, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
Hi Mentor :-*
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Just finding my feet again here... if you have any time to have a look at my edits/contributions so far and let me know if I'm doing anything particularly heinous i would appreciate it! Equally if you have some tedious/repetitive tasks linked to your goals here which are suitably n00bish then I'm happy to try and help :) Bazzabloodybenson (talk) 13:37, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
Welcome back, Bazzabloodybenson! I had a look as you asked me to. I think you are doing great so far! Two notes:
You use Bare URLs when citing sources. Click that link to find out what that means and to see how to make prettier footnotes :)
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The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.
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Hi I was looking to write article on the Michael Jackson Pepsi accident, there are no articles over this topic but it is mentioned on his page. --Anna M Kelsoe (talk) 09:53, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
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You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biography § Complementary preferences. I pinged you for feedback on the proposed guideline update re. complementary preferences; I suppose it slipped through the cracks during this extensive discussion. Actualcpscm (talk) 16:20, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
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