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Hey.
I'm sincerely trying to convey how impersonal your post to my talk page was. You didn't understand the context for the revert. My formatting was supposed to be satirical . Laugh a little. Awwright (talk) 17:35, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
Page edits reverted
The changes I made to Greenfield Community College are accurate, the school has just become an Academy and head teacher has changed. 217.23.229.76 (talk) 13:12, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
- Since the college has become an Academy, I will propose moving the page. -- Wesoree (talk·contribs) 13:16, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
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User:JohnMaynardFriedman
Thank you for reverting the vandalism by User:JohnMaynardFriedman to my talk page. You probably won't be aware that, until I usurped my present user name, I edited as User:John Maynard Friedman. Is there anything I should or could reasonably do about this? Wait for something more egregious? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 17:08, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
- @JMF: I will report him onto SRG and AIV for impersonating you. -- Wesoree (talk·contribs) 17:13, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
AIV
Hi, please could you raise your threshold for reporting vandals to AIV? For example, two edits in the space of a few minutes is not enough to establish that an account is vandalism-only, warnings should be given (generally at least a level one and a level 3), and the vandalism must have continued after a warning. There are, of course, exceptions for things like libel or where the disruption is obviously going to continue, but please keep these general rules in mind. Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:19, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
- @HJ Mitchell sure, I will now only report vandals as vandalism only if they are doing it rapidly. -- Wesoree (talk·contribs) 17:21, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
- Not so much rapid but active and persistent, and after being given a chance to stop. Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:23, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
ANI
Just FYI, when a blocked user is blatantly abusing their TPA it is usually more effective to reach out to the blocking admin than report it at ANI. #prodraxis connect 14:10, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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| I always see you reverting vandalism before I can even get to it. Good job! Nagol0929 (talk) 15:37, 21 September 2023 (UTC) |
My name is on Bangor wiki as a transgender activist and you put it back everything I get rid of it
Help Wikifan972 (talk) 16:01, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
- I've removed this. @Wesoree and --WikiUser1234945--: I'm not sure why you were both reverting this. An IP and newly registered account added unsourced non-notable individuals (with BLP claims about them) to this article. They should have been removed. And although you couldn't have known at the time, it was one of those individuals attempting to remove themselves. -- ferret (talk) 16:08, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
Userbox request
@Wesoree:
This user Wants to Be a Millionaire. Please use File:Australian $1 - original series - obverse.jpg
This user Wants to Be a Millionaire. Please use File:NDS obverse 500 Philippine peso bill.jpg
This user Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Catfurball (talk) 18:31, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
Done @Catfurball:
-- Wesoree (talk·contribs) 17:08, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
@Wesoree: Please when you create the userboxes put them in Category:NCIS (franchise) user templates and Category:Jeopardy! user templates.
This user supports Mayim Bialik as host of Jeopardy!
This user supports Ken Jennings as host of Jeopardy!
This user supports both Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik as host of Jeopardy!
This user knew that Ken Jennings would replace Alex Trebek as host of Jeopardy!
This user is a fan of NCIS: Los Angeles.
This user is a fan of NCIS: Hawai'i.
This user is a fan of Nancy Drew (2019 TV series).
This user is a fan of The Chronicles of Narnia (TV series).
Catfurball (talk) 17:07, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
- Done @Catfurball:
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-- Wesoree (talk·contribs) 15:51, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
@Wesoree: You forgot the four Jeopardy! userbox requests. Catfurball (talk) 15:53, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
- Done @Catfurball: For the last two of the Jepoardy! userboxes I left the category sorting blank as I don't know which name goes first. Feel free to place the correct category sorting on those userboxes.
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-- Wesoree (talk·contribs) 17:08, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
@Wesoree:
This user is a fan of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
This user is a fan of The Tigger Movie.
This user is a fan of Piglet's Big Movie.
This user is a fan of Pooh's Heffalump Movie.
This user is a fan of Winnie the Pooh.
This user is a fan of Christopher Robin.
This user is a fan of Welcome to Pooh Corner.
This user is a fan of The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
This user is a fan of The Book of Pooh.
This user is a fan of My Friends Tigger & Pooh.
Catfurball (talk) 19:53, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
- Done @Catfurball:
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-- Wesoree (talk·contribs) 16:26, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
@Wesoree:
This user is a fan of Winnie the Pooh (2011 film).
This user is fan of Winnie-the-Pooh (book).
This user is fan of The House at Pooh Corner.
This user is fan of Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Adaptation.
Catfurball (talk) 17:58, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
- Done @Catfurball:
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-- Wesoree (talk·contribs) 18:29, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
@Wesoree: When you create these userboxes please put them in Category:Streaming media user templates. This is a new category that I just created.
This user subscribes to Hulu.
This user subscribes to Hulu Japan.
This user subscribes to Paramount+.
This user subscribes to ESPN+.
This user subscribes to Star+.
This user subscribes to CNN+.
This user subscribes to BET+.
This user subscribes to AMC+.
This user subscribes to Peacock.
This user subscribes to Netflix.
This user subscribes to Max.
This user subscribes to Pluto TV.
This user subscribes to Discovery+.
Catfurball (talk) 21:22, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
- Done @Catfurball:
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Hello Wesoree, thank you for your thoughtful and kind message about the edition of the Battle of Varese entry. It was an accident since I am new here. I tried several times to restore the reference without success. Thank you for the collaboration and hopefully we can cooperate more times in the future! 187.59.177.9 (talk) 19:40, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Thanks for reverting the radio spammer on my talk page.  --WikiUser1234945-- (talk) 14:54, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
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Heather Kozar - I am married to Jim Pyne
This is Heather and Jim. We are married and would like the correct information posted.
Thank you Buc7360 (talk) 18:17, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Buc7360: you could also put the discussion on the article's said talk page as it is a conflict of interest which can be resolved further. You should read that linked page as Wikipedia has a conflict of interest policy. It is also a good idea to disclose it on your userpage. I will also do my part in adding the disclosure template onto the BLP's talk page. -- Wesoree (talk·contribs) 18:23, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
Please help me
I want to know how to create my own page without signing in 90.214.152.236 (talk) 18:58, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
- there is no way to do that, you will need to create an account unfortunately. -- Wesoree (talk·contribs) 20:36, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
- On thanks but why did 2A02:C7C:9AFE:FE00:8883:EAE6:A711:9253 get banned?? 2A02:C7C:9AFE:FE00:E95A:EF73:7997:270B (talk) 13:07, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
- many factors, i would go to the teahouse for help if i were you however since I don't always know what happens to editors (and ips). -- Wesoree (talk·contribs) 13:13, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
- thanks dude 🤗🤗 90.214.152.236 (talk) 13:29, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
- many factors, i would go to the teahouse for help if i were you however since I don't always know what happens to editors (and ips). -- Wesoree (talk·contribs) 13:13, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
- On thanks but why did 2A02:C7C:9AFE:FE00:8883:EAE6:A711:9253 get banned?? 2A02:C7C:9AFE:FE00:E95A:EF73:7997:270B (talk) 13:07, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
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more fish than i need, have some
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You have been trouted for: i went fishing lately and caught too many, here's a gift70.118.14.242 (talk) 16:13, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
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Guideline and policy news
- Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.
Technical news
- 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
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
The Signpost: 16 May 2024
- News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections
- Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?
- Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24
- Comix: Generations
- Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby
Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.
Technical news
- The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
- The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.
Miscellaneous
- WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!
The Signpost: 8 June 2024
- Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade
- Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor
- In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say
- News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024
- Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth
- Featured content: We didn't start the wiki
- Essay: No queerphobia
- Special report: RetractionBot is back to life!
- Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer
- Comix: The Wikipediholic Family
- Concept: Palimpsestuous
Addition
I liked the addition to the Lowell HS (Mi) page with the floodlights! I think I remember adding that but someone took it off lols. Nice to know I wasn’t completely crazy :) Treepops! (talk) 02:13, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 4 July 2024
- News and notes: WMF board elections and fundraising updates
- Special report: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board
- In focus: How the Russian Wikipedia keeps it clean despite having just a couple dozen administrators
- Discussion report: Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna
- In the media: War and information in war and politics
- Sister projects: On editing Wikisource
- Opinion: Etika: a Pop Culture Champion
- Gallery: Spokane Willy's photos
- Humour: A joke
- Recent research: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps
- Traffic report: Talking about you and me, and the games people play
Administrators' newsletter – July 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).
Administrator changes
Technical news
- Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)
Miscellaneous
- The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more
The Signpost: 22 July 2024
- Discussion report: Internet users flock to Wikipedia to debate its image policy over Trump raised-fist photo
- News and notes: Wikimedia community votes to ratify Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation opposes ratification
- Obituary: JamesR
- Crossword: Vaguely bird-shaped crossword
How have you been Wes?
Hi Wes, how are you? I haven't spoken to you in quite a long time since I essentially left TTR so I'm hoping you're well :-)
Let me know how you've been.
— That Coptic Guyping me! (talk) (contribs) 15:47, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- @That Coptic Guy i'm doing well, have been on a long hiatus as it's the summer break for me and I already had a hard time through high school, even while being able to do some antivandalism now that school's out i can relax -- Wesoree (talk·contribs) 20:04, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Nice. Well, take it easy. Are you starting college in a few months? Hope you're excited about that too and maybe even got a chance to play the new UNM update — That Coptic Guyping me! (talk) (contribs) 20:13, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- @That Coptic Guy i'm starting college in september (computer science) might also end up working for the ttr team at some point -- Wesoree (talk·contribs) 21:32, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- I'd love to see you on the team. I think you'd really improve it. On a totally unrelated note:
- @That Coptic Guy i'm starting college in september (computer science) might also end up working for the ttr team at some point -- Wesoree (talk·contribs) 21:32, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Nice. Well, take it easy. Are you starting college in a few months? Hope you're excited about that too and maybe even got a chance to play the new UNM update — That Coptic Guyping me! (talk) (contribs) 20:13, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- 1. This omelette looks amazing
- 2. I have the exact same plate at home — That Coptic Guyping me! (talk) (contribs) 00:22, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).
Technical news
- Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
- Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.
Arbitration
- The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ
The Signpost: 14 August 2024
- In the media: Portland pol profile paid for from public purse
- In focus: Twitter marks the spot
- News and notes: Another Wikimania has concluded.
- Special report: Nano or just nothing: Will nano go nuclear?
- Opinion: HouseBlaster's RfA debriefing
- Traffic report: Ball games, movies, elections, but nothing really weird
- Humour: I'm proud to be a template
Administrators' newsletter – September 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which
applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past
. - A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
Arbitration
- Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
- Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
- The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.
Miscellaneous
- Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
The Signpost: 4 September 2024
- News and notes: WikiCup enters final round, MCDC wraps up activities, 17-year-old hoax article unmasked
- In the media: AI is not playing games anymore. Is Wikipedia ready?
- News from the WMF: Meet the 12 candidates running in the WMF Board of Trustees election
- Wikimania: A month after Wikimania 2024
- Serendipity: What it's like to be Wikimedian of the Year
- Traffic report: After the gold rush
The Signpost: 26 September 2024
- In the media: Courts order Wikipedia to give up names of editors, legal strain anticipated from "online safety laws"
- Community view: Indian courts order Wikipedia to take down name of crime victim, editors strive towards consensus
- Serendipity: A Wikipedian at the 2024 Paralympics
- Opinion: asilvering's RfA debriefing
- News and notes: Are you ready for admin elections?
- Recent research: Article-writing AI is less "prone to reasoning errors (or hallucinations)" than human Wikipedia editors
- Traffic report: Jump in the line, rock your body in time
Administrators' newsletter – October 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
- Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
- A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
- An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
- Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).
Miscellaneous
- If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist on your watchlist, and help out when you can.
Atomic/optical clock
Hi, you previously reverted my change to the atomic clock page. I'm moving the 'optical clock' section to its own wikipedia page. Is there a reason that it should stay in the atomic clock page?
'Gas giant' for example is not a subsection of the 'planet' page. 'Gas giant' is it's own page. Gas giants are a subsection of planets, and optical clocks are a subsection of atomic clocks. It makes sense to me that when a page grows very large, and a certain subsection still has ample potential to grow, that subsection should be made into it's own page. If there's any argument for keeping it as is, let me know. Rat eating man (talk) 22:25, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- User:Rat eating man, I do not intend to speak for Wesoree, however since your bold WP:SPLIT has been challenged you should start a discussion per WP:PROSPLIT, in the future you also need to follow the procedure at WP:Copying within Wikipedia to ensure attribution is preserved when moving content between pages, additionally you need to use descriptive edit summaries when making major edits. Finally please don't blank pages without a good reason. 2601:5CC:8300:A7F0:158A:D853:75F4:E618 (talk) 22:38, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Rat eating man: considering that the article is already splitted, I will just redirect Optical Clock into Optical clock -- Wesoree (talk·contribs) 00:41, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 19 October 2024
- News and notes: One election's end, another election's beginning
- Recent research: "As many as 5%" of new English Wikipedia articles "contain significant AI-generated content", says paper
- In the media: Off to the races! Wikipedia wins!
- Contest: A WikiCup for the Global South
- Traffic report: A scream breaks the still of the night
- Book review: The Editors
- Humour: The Newspaper Editors
- Crossword: Spilled Coffee Mug
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
- Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.
Technical news
- Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068
Arbitration
- RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
- The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.
Miscellaneous
- An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!