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I want to make sure you are aware of this
An editor referred to you, but not by name, here: [1], and I want to make sure that you are aware of it. --Tryptofish (talk) 17:39, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you. I'm not thrilled about it - I don't really see how complaining about the formulations article helps to build a consensus for a RoundUp article, but I don't think my getting involved at Jimbo's talk page is likely to be more productive then previous attempts at discussion. Seraphim System (talk) 17:53, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, that makes good sense. I just felt that it would be unfair to you if you didn't know. --Tryptofish (talk) 18:00, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
DTR
Per this edit, I would like to remind you of the essay WP:DTR. Regards! --T*U (talk) 21:02, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
- I thought the warning was required as part of the AN3 complaint? Seraphim System (talk) 21:09, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) It is (although it doesn't have to be via template). --Tryptofish (talk) 21:12, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
- Ok, will leave a personal note next time. Thanks for the reminder. Seraphim System (talk) 21:14, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) It is (although it doesn't have to be via template). --Tryptofish (talk) 21:12, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
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![]() "The noblest motive is the public good." Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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- Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [4]
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- The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [5]
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Page mover granted
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Hello, Seraphim System. Your account has been granted the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names and moving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind a redirect, and move subpages when moving the parent page(s).
Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Page mover for more information on this user right, especially the criteria for moving pages without leaving redirect. Please remember to follow post-move cleanup procedures and make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects when suppressredirect
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Useful links:
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- Category:Articles to be moved, for article renaming requests awaiting action.
If you do not want the page mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! Swarm ♠ 20:53, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
- Hi.
Welcome to the cabal.I would recommend you to use Andy's script. You can find a few more interesting things at User:Usernamekiran/common.js. Regards, —usernamekiran(talk) 19:12, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
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1RR violation
This is actually breaking 1RR. Restore the original version or I'll report you to AE.--יניב הורון (Yaniv) (talk) 22:38, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
- I don't see the point in reverting now- I made the edit at 22:05, and my edit last night was at 22:09, but if I self-reverted I would just immediately restore it again since it is no longer within 1RR. Besides, all I did was copy consensus content from the lede of the main article. Since you also violated 1RR with your original revert at 21:13, filing at AE would really be in frivolous complaint territory. This message seems more like WP:BATTLEGROUND.Seraphim System (talk) 23:06, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
- I was not really expecting this to be challenged since it was stable content from the second paragraph of the lede of the Yom Kippur War article, but I started a talk page discussion at 1973 oil crisis.Seraphim System (talk) 23:46, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
Rollback granted
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Having seen your second edit to this article, I withdraw the statement about your being disingenuous in the removal of "Holocaust denying", with apologies. Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:18, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
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Invite to talk page discussion
I made a nice talk page discussion about your revert as part of the BRD cycle. I would be happy to have you participate. Discuss-Dubious (t/c) 02:56, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
- I commented on the talk page. Seraphim System (talk) 02:58, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi again. Don’t mean to be a bother, but I also should have requested your thoughts here. It’s... more fundamental to cleanup, I think.
Also, could you let me know what counts as a good source in Turkey-related articles and what sources are low-quality? Discuss-Dubious (t/c) 03:35, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
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The Bugle: Issue CXLIX, September 2018
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Some?
Hi there, Seraphim. I noticed that at the end of your statement at my AE, you said you were on the receiving end of "some" of my comments in question. Did you mean to say "one", or are there more? If you meant "one" could you please amend? Thank you. And if you do find my behavior as leaning toward problematic, which you imply by saying I might need to be banned one day, it would be helpful if you would spell out exactly what you see as a problem. Thanks much, petrarchan47คุก 08:30, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
- I don't support topic banning a good faith editor for getting heated during a particularly difficult and controversial discussion, but if you need me to spell out exact what was wrong with some of the comments you made during that discussion (in multiple places), I think most likely we will end up back at AE down the line anyway. Seraphim System (talk) 17:13, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
- Thinking back on it, you're right to say I was heated. I was downright freaked out, I could not believe what I was witnessing. The timing was just strange, but that appears to be coincidental. It wasn't too long ago that making a statement like the one I did was par for the course. Only since the GMO ArbCom has it been dodgy to speak the truth. [And by "truth" I simply mean, one's personal take on things, not capitol-T-Truth] I do apologize for what must feel like an affront to your good work and efforts. On the other hand, please realize that the examples brought forth go back 8 years, and none rose to the level of "casting aspersions" as far as the admins were concerned, so I don't agree with your warning that "we'll just end up back at AE". If you haven't noticed, AE is sometimes used as a way to rid unwanted editors, and ending up at AE doesn't mean the recipient is actually guilty of anything. I did want you to spell it out (speak with me like a fellow human) which is why I came here. It was worth a shot. Cheers, petrarchan47คุก 21:22, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
- I'm sorry if you feel I was not speaking to you like a fellow human - to answer your question, strictly speaking, I would say any accusation of behavioral misconduct or saying an editor should be topic banned outside an administrative forum, without being able to produce evidence when requested, would be considered an aspersion. However, I've never seen anyone sanctioned for these types of comments unless there was overwhelming evidence of a long term pattern of personal attacks/aspersions. There is too much of a risk of having a chilling effect on discussion unless the evidence is really clear and overwhelming. Seraphim System (talk) 22:17, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
- Thinking back on it, you're right to say I was heated. I was downright freaked out, I could not believe what I was witnessing. The timing was just strange, but that appears to be coincidental. It wasn't too long ago that making a statement like the one I did was par for the course. Only since the GMO ArbCom has it been dodgy to speak the truth. [And by "truth" I simply mean, one's personal take on things, not capitol-T-Truth] I do apologize for what must feel like an affront to your good work and efforts. On the other hand, please realize that the examples brought forth go back 8 years, and none rose to the level of "casting aspersions" as far as the admins were concerned, so I don't agree with your warning that "we'll just end up back at AE". If you haven't noticed, AE is sometimes used as a way to rid unwanted editors, and ending up at AE doesn't mean the recipient is actually guilty of anything. I did want you to spell it out (speak with me like a fellow human) which is why I came here. It was worth a shot. Cheers, petrarchan47คุก 21:22, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2018)
![]() Musicians at a pub session, an event that involves playing music and/or singing in the relaxed social setting of a local pub, in which the music-making is intermingled with the consumption of ale, stout, and beer and conversation.
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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018
Hello Seraphim System, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.
- Project news
- The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.
- As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.
- There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks for more info to see if you can help out.
- Other
- A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.
- Moving to Draft and Page Mover
- Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
- If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
- Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
- The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
- The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.
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