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He was later desysopped by the ArbCom. It took 5 days from the one-week block until you unblocked me and took flak from the other admin which led to an AN/I thread. The feeling of powerlessness and injustice was certainly not nice. So: thank you! You are one of the good ones. It's a shame you seem to be quite inactive these days. --Pudeo (talk) 20:10, 29 May 2019 (UTC) The Signpost: 31 May 2019 From the editors: Picture that News and notes: Wikimania and trustee elections In the media: Politics, lawsuits and baseball Discussion report: Admin abuse leads to mass-desysop proposal on Azerbaijani Wikipedia Arbitration report: ArbCom forges ahead Traffic report: Dark marvels, thrones, a vile serial killer biopic, that's entertainment! Technology report: Lots of Bots News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation petitions the European Court of Human Rights to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey Recent research: Wikipedia more useful than academic journals, but is it stealing the news? 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Starzoner (talk) 02:51, 4 May 2020 (UTC) Also help, I had renamed this template, but can you help wi th the subpages? Starzoner (talk) 02:52, 4 May 2020 (UTC) There are a ton of pages about this. I created a bot request to take care of this, but you are free to attempt to go through this. There are hundreds upon hundreds of pages that need moving. I'll try taking care of the subpages. -- tariqabjotu 03:35, 4 May 2020 (UTC) Probable template bug. You've recently moved the Template:COVID-19_pandemic_data/Belarus_medical_cases_chart and now it doesn't seem to be updatable, since the source code is not showing when pressing "Edit". Instead, it's just showing "Redirect category shell" and "R from move". I do not have the graph data backed up, so if anything could be done from the administrator's side, it would be nice. -- Nicholas Velasquez (talk) 9:27, 4 May 2020 (UTC) I was finally able to update the graph through the "Edit source" button, however, editing trough the "Edit" button inside the template does not seem possible (yields empty editing area). Not sure if that is intended. -- Nicholas Velasquez (talk) 10:09, 4 May 2020 (UTC) @Nicholas Velasquez: Thank you for the information; this required editing the number of the outbreak within the template on that page. I've corrected it, so you should be able to edit the normal way, but that is something I'll look out for when all the other similar pages are moved. -- tariqabjotu 10:41, 4 May 2020 (UTC) Yes, it's working now. Thank you. -- Nicholas Velasquez (talk) 10:54, 4 May 2020 (UTC) move of template broke editting must use visual editor now https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_data/Poland_medical_cases&action=edit — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.27.253.151 (talk) 15:39, 4 May 2020 (UTC) And now "v" "view this template" link is broken — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.27.253.151 (talk) 16:45, 4 May 2020 (UTC) Looks fine to me. -- tariqabjotu 16:47, 4 May 2020 (UTC) Please go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:COVID-19_pandemic_data/Poland_medical_cases Find this part "SARS-CoV-2 timeline in Poland (v t e)" In (v t e) links "t" and "e" work again but "v" is not clickable anymore Yeah, because you're already looking at the template. -- tariqabjotu 16:54, 4 May 2020 (UTC) A barnstar for you! The Barnstar of Diligence Good work Starzoner (talk) 17:26, 4 May 2020 (UTC) A barnstar for you! The Admin's Barnstar Thanks mate. 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I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! CommanderWaterford (talk) 06:40, 26 June 2020 (UTC) Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society Dear Tariqabjotu, I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​ Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 13:59, 26 June 2020 (UTC) Happy First Edit Day! 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