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• Thank you for the new edition of the Signpost. I don't always comment, but I read every issue with interest. Ganesha811 (talk) 20:14, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the kind words. We love comments BTW (or at least most of them!), so please comment away! Smallbones_(smalltalk) 21:40, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
• Strange question...but who are the top editors by prose content added (and preferably unreverted/deleted? Is there a way to find out? No Swan So Fine (talk) 21:15, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
  • I don't know anyway to get an exact answer, but see Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-01-31/Technology report and you might think it's User:Ram-Man (if you allow bot edits into the count). If you don't count bot edits - I'll take a wild guess and say User:Dr. Blofeld. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 21:40, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
    • I think the stats have difficulty distinguishing re-additions after "blanked the page" edits or other removals from actual additions, so it might be someone doing a lot of vandal-fighting. Johnbod (talk) 03:30, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
• That quote by User:Ser Amantio di Nicolao was awesome. Well said! –Novem Linguae (talk) 01:19, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
  • @Novem Linguae: Thanks very much - glad you liked. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:16, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
• Looking for anything on the 'Nicholas Alahverdian fakes his death using Wikipedia' story... →StaniStani 05:19, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
  • This was the first I heard of it, but I just spent about 2 hours trying to get the basics - it's an amazingly complicated and interesting story. There are 2 or 3 points about it that I'd love to cover in The Signpost and 2 or 3 reasons that I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. But I'll keep an eye on it for the next issue. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 17:49, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
• What a beautiful and truly personal story Ser Amantio di Nicolao. Thank you for sharing. Ckoerner (talk) 15:38, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
  • @Ckoerner: Glad you liked. I told my mother the other day: that little copier has had such an outsize influence in my life, you can't imagine. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:16, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
  • I agree. It was a nice story. Somerandomuser (talk) 04:35, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

• I'm anticipating the day the WMF Board declares "We are the bylaws." -Indy beetle (talk) 02:39, 2 February 2021 (UTC)