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indirectly on this encyclopedic project, whose ideals are surely carried by both of our hearts. I'm hoping I have not fallen in your esteem to the level where "no hard feelings" can no longer ring true, because I highly respect you and your dedication to Knowledge, and I sincerely wish you and your loved ones all the best for 2018.

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I don't have time to look into it now but if the behaviour continues after receiving the alert, then AE is the place to go. Persistent IDHT has been sanctioned there before (it was a large part of what led to the very first sanctions against Darkfrog24 for example). It has also been sanctioned at ANI

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you wrote, in response to me, "...is something I can only describe as arrogance". I object to that since it is clearly meant to mean that I am arrogant, and I regard that as a (mild) personal attack and at the very least uncivil. Your spelling errors in that comment may indicate you were in haste and

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Hey Chris, if you can make it to Tower Hill for me again, I need photos of the seven relief sculptures on the walls of the sunken garden, individually and two or three to a photo, so I can make a gallery of them in the article. I could also do with better photos of the north end of the sunken garden,

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I've re-read the discussion again, and if anything I'm seeing more consensus against it than I wrote. Yes this has a big place in American sporting culture, but many people pointed out that that would mean we should be posting comparable events from other nation's sporting culture. There was also not

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Sadly I'm not surprised. The refusal to place the needs of readers above strict adherence to style guidelines is why set indexes are not just a type of disambiguation page in the first place. The RfC ideally needs to bring in some input from people who aren't style guideline fanatics, but I fear few

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Yes, that's the sort of thing. I've made a couple of small copyedits for you (it was easier than explaining them!), but other than that I'd consider flehsing it out a little more summarising what you've learned from your interactions at the teahouse, etc. In terms of lifting the ban, I supsect some

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There would be no need for me to continue to comment if those I was replying to did not persist with the misunderstandings, logical fallacies and other comments that miss the entire point or are factually incorrect. If you wish to inconvenience readers for no benefit, then please go ahead and make

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I don't want to rehash the argument. I want you to know that I interpreted your original comments as uncivil and personal. I gave you an easy way out to apologise gracefully—and asked you not to do it again—but you have actually now made it worse by referring to me as "some people" (which is rude)

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How is it possible that one person who is biased and knows the subject continues to have the authority to curate this biography? How is that person still an editor? Please look at the history of the Talk Page and revert back to the earlier version by Winged Godric, and include this fact of Drunken

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There were eleven supports that did not focus on the current blurbs, which you summarily dismissed with "There is consensus that where an event is not the top level of the sport there needs to be some other indication of importance or significance ..." Given that wording, I fear that you've missed

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the subject and is attempting to add erroneous information to the page. The fact that Shankar founded the world's oldest electronic journal of the arts, Drunken Boat, absolutely should be included on his biography page. The website is probably the most important thing that Shankar has done.

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I want to thank you for your detailed and clear explanations on the lantresman AE request for clarification. I did not explain myself well in part because I cannot say more on the issues I have concerns with, but I believe your comments will be very useful to editors as is your advice. I am

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Based on what the OP said they weren't actually asking for the redirects to be deleted, but commenting that the hatnote at the target was not useful, which is not an RfD matter. As you have now indicated that you want to advance an argument for deletion I will reopen the discussion.

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On the other side, all but five of the opposes were primarily concerned with it being an amateur event, or it being of "low worldwide significance"—which isn't a rule at ITN, which as you know often posts items of limited international significance. Several of those are even on

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to never have a subsection in a section unless there are 2+ subsections, even though no MoS page has such a rule, for very good reasons. Will not accept that WP has its own style guide; what his favored external style book says is being pushed as if it's a law of nature.)

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Unfortunately there was nothing constructive from my interaction with the Help Desk and Tea House. A bit of a long shot, would you consider being a mentor, or something similar for me, which I would mention in my appeal? I'd keep discussion to a minimum. More about me

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I didn't see very much anti-American hatred, although I did see people insisting on treating the USA like any other individual nation which I can understand some Americans might interpret as being anti-American (although I'm not saying you personally do/did).

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FWIW I support your closing, even though I supported posting. Quality wasn't there, consensus was building against, and we weren't going to cut through the usual anti-American hatred masked as "global significance" this time. Thanks for helping out at ITN.

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Hello T. First I wanted to let you know that I have not seen a domain sales link work its way into any reFill fixes that I have made since the one you found last month. I was hoping that it may have been a one off but then I noticed this thread

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I had no idea it was a thing until I wandered over there today to use it. You seem to be the lone admin minding that board. If I knew how to award a barn star, I would. Thanks for keeping an eye on that corner of the project Thryduulf.

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I'd also like to add my appreciation for making two intelligent and well-explained closes on contentious ITN items. Making everyone happy isn't possible, but your closes should satisfy people that their input has been appreciated.

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You're welcome and thank you for the compliments. In my view being fair is the absolute minimum that everybody deserves, whether they've been here since 2001 and have every hat in the box or haven't yet made their first edit.

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where something like it looks to have happened again. As we are not programmers I thought I would bring it to your attention in case there is any info there that might be of use to you. I hope you have a pleasant weekend.

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has been closed as no consensus. Given that there was no support for keeping the redirects, I think your proposed solution (restore the article and take to AfD) is now probably the best way forward. What do you think?

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Thanks for the heads-up. I've been AFK pretty much all day so I've only just seen this and I'm nowhere near awake enough now to grok a long AN/I thread. I should get time to look tomorrow if things go to plan.

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place the needs and convenience of the readers ahead of any benefit to ourselves, and I will not cease to call out those who wish to do otherwise - particularly when the action will not benefit anybody.

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to make sure it all makes sense etc I'd appreciate it but I'd understand if you don't have the time or inclination. And we must sort out some dates for you to come down to visit! All the best my friend,

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What you have called persistent disruptive editing is simply not true. The attempt to add the most important detail in Shankar's bio has continually been changed by an editor called ScrapIronIV who

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I can't recall whether I was in haste or not, but while the language was perhaps slightly harsher than necessary the sentiment is one that I firmly stand by (and have stood by for years): We must

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games, and it's disruptive. It's two individuals, and they're doing it to me, too. Thryduulf even prepared a detailed FAQ for them covering every single point from multiple angles, yet they're

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Hi mate, cheers for the heads-up about the Bristol meet. I actually live in London now, so meetups here are far more convenient for me than down the M4. Thanks for thinking of me though. –

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It's marked as resolved, I'm guessing the fix reaches the Wikipedias later this week. Thank you so much for stopping by, looking forward to your next report or, well, maybe not ;)

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If you are going to make accusations of bullying you need to be a lot more specific and cite examples. Aspersions and vague rhetoric will not get anyone to change their mind.

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Yeah, and I'd question another person's characterisation of this as "the usual anti-American hatred masked as "global significance"" but your mileage may vary.

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I agree with Xezbeth on tone. More importantly, now things have died down there, I left a few alternatives at the bottom if you wish to explore them just say.

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Indeed not, but for practical purposes it would initially require buy in from several editors experienced in dispute resolution with time to invest in it.

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but nothing is reliable about that board (we really need somewhere with a structured format like AE for incidents that don't fall under its jurisdiction).

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people might consider you a little light on article-space edits but that's not guaranteed and I didn't spot anything significant from what I spot checked.

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I'd echo TRM's point, despite being on the other side of the nom. With this & #metoo, taking the time to explain your decision is much appreciated.

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Thank you :) It seems that I accidentally stumbled across a problem that's existed since 2005 as well, which probably caught a few devs by surpise!

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Why have you closed this RfD before anyone else can comment on it? They need to be deleted and I would have explained why if you hadn't done so. —

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I think you should take a break from commenting, you're extremely heated for some reason and are being rather rude to multiple people at once. —

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Thanks for the headsup, but as he is indefinitely blocked all that needs doing is leaving a note on his talk page for the reference of others.

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I can't remember if I've seen you there or not, but in case you aren't aware there are meetups on the second Sunday of every month in London.

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recently; I am curious to hear your opinion as I seem to remember British politics-related topics are one of your interest fields. Regards,

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I know you quit as the enforcing admin, but the appeal procedure seems to require that I tell you that I'm appealing the 2016 sanction.

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As someone who has been a party on this topic, I would really appropriate if you would please provide your input on the edit warring

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Just wanting to second TRM here, solid reasoning, and well done on avoiding the usual nonsense posting of amateur university sports.

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Hi there. Was unaware of the prior discussion. How can I close the redirect discussion so as to not waste any more editors time?

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and talking about my personal preferences. Stop it. Please stick to referring to policy and guidance and interpretations thereof.

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Thryduulf, good close, well done for being bold enough to take on all the usual post-closure combat for this kind of thing.

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regarding the changeover of arbitrators at the end of their term. Just a minor typographical note: "incoming" has one "m".

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if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the

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that this was an "external effort to gain unauthorized access to random accounts". Under Knowledge policy, administrators

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also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.

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Thank you. I'm not the only admin, but I am one of the more prolific there (and off and on have been for years).

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evidence. This is actually one of the worse cases of IDHT-based filibuster I've ever seen in over 12 year here.

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After 5,200 words of (sometimes effusive) discussion, it was evident that consensus wasn't there. Good close.

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that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

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would have been someone replying to Sasha's April request long before I submitted across ugly tag in June.

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Should MoS shortcut redirects be sorted to certain specific maintenance categories? An Rfc has been opened

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You need to make edit requests on the talk page of the article, including sources to back up your claims.

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Knowledge:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 58#Strange reference, looking to me like a disguised spam

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Thanks for responding, though I'd question another person's characterization of this as "combat." Best,

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to be accurate. This site was already edited by WingedGodric to reflect the true facts of the case.

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is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

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make a start on it this weekend but it's unlikely be heading to FAC until February at the earliest)

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Meh, I'm okay with that, just a persistent flickery eyelid, but I'll get over it in a few days...

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Eh? I didn't count the votes, and don't see where I've written anything that would imply I did?

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heartened by your knowledge and the unusual care and fairness with which you dealt with the AE.(

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Nothing against you personally, but I'm not really interested in being a mentor at the moment.

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I will refrain from commenting further on this here as I do not think it will be productive.

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a consensus (although relatively little discussion) that the quality of the update was there.

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was a composer, but he was also a performer, and - what is more - a human being, covered by

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Also, there have been repeated attempts to add false information to this page. Shankar was

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I do not have time at the moment to get involved with that page, but will take when I do.

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over at ITNC, to which I'd give a more direct link if brackets worked inside link syntax.

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I tried to think of a synonym for "endorsement" that starts with a consonant but failed.

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And they will be presented in the Workshop when the Workshop is open, but it isn't yet.

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Please add your evidence by February 17, 2018, which is when the evidence phase closes.

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He started veering into aspersions that those who don't agree with him are uneducated

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may not have properly considered the impact of your words. Please don't do it again.

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and possibly the sentries at the top of the steps. If you feel like reading through

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You were kind enough to offer advice during my topic ban appeal earlier in the year

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or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.

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which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered

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You suggested I work on an appeal in my userspace, is this what you had in mind?

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Ah well, at least I was consistent! Please feel free to correct my spelling :)

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I might start looking at non-Lutyens memorials (eg Deal, Bury)! Thanks a lot!

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Dear Thryduulf - I'm writing about this page which you have semi-protected.

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that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

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I think it's Official Strawman Day and we just didn't know. See top half of

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oops, it would help if I said "In case you wan to reset the block timer."

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to establish details for implementing the group on the English Knowledge.

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Hey Chris, war memorials in order of priority for photos, as requested:

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and refusal to engage in that discussion. It's really pretty bizarre.

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Again you can see something about the history of this magazine here:

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style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to

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On a side note, I'm getting the exact same IDHT act from Bignole at

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some of the !voting rationales. Two in particular stand out to me:

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Cheers for the heads-up I'll take look and see if it's of use.

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seems to be the place to look to find someone who is willing.

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new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools

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to answer that question. Your sentiments would be appreciated

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prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at

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by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.

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on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on

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