User talk:Valereee/Archive 28

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).

Administrator changes   John M Wolfson   Bduke • Nilfanion • Philosopher • Rspeer • Yunshui   Interface administrator changes   Ragesoss   TonyBallioni

CheckUser changes   EdJohnston • Oshwah • Yamla   Yunshui   Oversight changes   Anarchyte   Yunshui

  Guideline and policy news

• Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.

  Technical news

• Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
• Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
• Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.

  Arbitration

• The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
• The Anti-harassment RfC has concluded with a summary of the feedback provided.

  Miscellaneous

• A reminder that standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. (American Politics 2 Arbitration case).

The 2020 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round going down to the wire. Our new Champion is   Lee Vilenski (submissions), the runner-up last year, who was closely followed by   Gog the Mild (submissions). In the final round, Lee achieved 4 FAs and 30 GAs, mostly on cue sport topics, while Gog achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on important battles and wars, which earned him a high number of bonus points.   The Rambling Man (submissions) was in third place with 4 FAs and 8 GAs on football topics, with   Epicgenius (submissions) close behind with 19 GAs and 16 DYK's, his interest being the buildings of New York.

The other finalists were   Hog Farm (submissions),   HaEr48 (submissions),   Harrias (submissions) and   Bloom6132 (submissions). The final round was very productive, and besides 15 FAs, contestants achieved 75 FAC reviews, 88 GAs and 108 GAN reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.

•   Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for a total of 14 FAs during the course of the competition.
•   Bloom6132 (submissions) win the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in round 4.
•   Rhododendrites (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, for 3 FPs in round 3 and 5 overall.
•   Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the featured article reviewer prize, for 23 FAC reviews in round 5.
•   Epicgenius (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 45 GAs in round 2 and 113 overall.
•   MPJ-DK (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 33 articles in good topics in round 2.
•   The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize, for 100 good article reviews in round 2.
•   Epicgenius (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 22 Did you know articles in round 4 and 94 overall.
•   Bloom6132 (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 63 In the news articles in round 4 and 136 overall.

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2021 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:38, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi Valereee, thank you so much for jumping in. I am afraid I am over my head and do not know what to do to help this along...or if I even can. When I look at the "other" Dede Wilson, it seems to me that I have as much if not more info than she that would qualify me for a page. But maybe I am wrong. This is HER: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dede_Wilson

I am trying to differentiate me from her, since the GOOGLE knowledge panel was messed up for so many years.

Can you tell me what to do next? I hosted 2 of my own PBS cooking shows, have published over 15 books (major publisher), non self-published and have been a spokesperson for major brands like KitchenAid.

I guess the first thing is to determine whether I am important enough to have a page, right?

Any help much appreciated and I do need you to be explicit because I find this place majorly confusing LOL

Dédé — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dedewilsonchef&author (talk • contribs) 15:08, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Answered at user talk —valereee (talk) 14:16, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Is this the "right" way to talk with you?

I can work on the images...Thank you for explaining

Dédé — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dedewilsonchef&author (talk • contribs) 14:25, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Dedewilsonchef&author, we generally prefer to keep all discussion in one place so that future editors can follow the conversation. Probably from now on, that should be at the article talk, which is at Talk:Dede Wilson (baker). :) —valereee (talk) 14:30, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

I wasn’t on Wikipedia a darn month ago so that warn for testing you gave me was wrongful so yeah P10n3rr (talk) 20:08, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

P10n3rr here's the edit. It appears to have been made by you on September 22, then reverted? —valereee (talk) 20:54, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello. It’s Doggy54321 again. Long story short, the page Draft:Confetti (Little Mix album) just got submitted to AfC by myself. The mainspace equivalent article, Confetti (Little Mix album) is a redirect and is admin-protected until tonight. My friend User:DarkGlow is a draft accepter (or whatever we call that), but not a page mover. They have offered to rapidly accept the draft, since it should be on the mainspace as it’s notable, but they aren’t a page mover and can’t delete the main page. The page is also admin protected so they can’t edit.

Could you please remove page protection of Confetti (Little Mix album) and then delete the article? I don’t need anything else, just for you to delete the page. The page was protected because editors kept adding content back, and now that the page is needed for something, it’s not really helpful to have the page admin-protected. I know that you’re online, and you have been helpful in the past, so I thought I’d ask you.

If you could also do this ASAP, that would be really helpful as it would allow for DarkGlow to accept the draft, and the article would be in the mainspace immediately.

Please let me know your thoughts on this. Thanks! D🐶ggy54321 ^{(let's chat!)} 18:34, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Doggy54321, I see you've already asked the protecting admin, MelanieN, for help with this. My feeling here is that she's got more insight on this than I do. It's not a good idea to go to more than one person; it tends to be a time waster for both if they end up duplicating efforts. Beyond that, we have no deadlines. Beyond that, the expiration is due to expire tonight? It's 19:00 GMT. How is this possibly a request you should mark both urgent and ASAP? —valereee (talk) 19:01, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for letting me know. Sorry! The page was moved. I guess I was a little too eager and just too excited (not a rare thing, btw). Maybe next time I should think about the other person's time. Melanie declined my offer as they claimed "that's not [their] line of work". I’ll remember that tip for next time! Thanks! D🐶ggy54321 ^{(let's chat!)} 21:48, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Doggy54321, I apologize for being cranky, I'm a bit more on edge right now than normal. —valereee (talk) 09:32, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

That’s fine, we all get cranky sometimes. Have a great day! D🐶ggy54321 ^{(let's chat!)} 11:33, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Dear administrator, I have been contributing arduously to this page René Guénon, adding many sources and authors to the influenced section, it took me many hours to do it. An user is deleting all of my work, and is not responding to my messages. Please check the page in question as soon as possible, thank you very much.Luceveritatis (talk) 09:56, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

 

On 9 November 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Marla Berkowitz, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Marla Berkowitz considers herself a Sumain, meaning someone who communicates using their hands? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Marla Berkowitz. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Marla Berkowitz), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:01, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for operating the bot which gives credit for articles passing the DYK process. Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:06, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Bluerasberry, thanks for the lovely coffee, it's much appreciated, but I don't operate that bot. I believe it's Shubinator who operates it! The bot autosigns DYK notices on user talk pages of the nominator as coming from whichever admin moved the prep to queue. I just happened to be the one who moved the prep your hook was in! :) —valereee (talk) 12:34, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Okay, I will thank that user also. Thank you for your part in the process. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:46, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

I am not sure what happened or, again, if I am using this correctly.

I had written a week ago about images that are now up in Creative Commons of me. can you put those up? Is that OK?

Dedewilsonchef&author (talk) 22:21, 11 November 2020 (UTC)DédéDedewilsonchef&author (talk) 22:21, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Answered at Talk:Dede Wilson (baker). —valereee (talk) 09:43, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Here they are.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Dede+Wilson&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1

Dedewilsonchef&author (talk) 13:15, 12 November 2020 (UTC)DédéDedewilsonchef&author (talk) 13:15, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Answered at article talk. —valereee (talk) 13:40, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello! I've published The Roxy (Portland, Oregon) and nominated for Good article, on the off chance you're interested in reviewing. Either way, happy editing! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 19:34, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Ditto Delta Cafe ---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:50, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Hey, Another Believer, I'm trying to learn a new task that is likely to take up much of my time, I likely won't be doing any GA reviews for quite a while. —valereee (talk) 14:18, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello,

I need your help for the René Guénon article. I'm more used to Wikipedia in French than in English. As indicated by a banner, the article has a very serious problem: it is original work (except the biography which I improved) with no secondary sources. I wrote much of the article on this author in French and I have a large number of reliable secondary sources, mostly academic. I'm currently blocked by a contributor and I don't want to get into a "Edit warring type fight".

This contributor writes summaries without secondary sources and tells me readers need to make up their own mind! He has already eliminated my contributions full of recyclable secondary sources. As I told him that secondary sources were needed, he only mentioned P. Geay (which he does not even quote). I know P. Geay: I read his book "Hermes betrayed" which is his doctoral thesis but which only deals with the late Christian mystics and not on Guénon. I was subscribed to his review "The Rule of Abraham" which was edited confidentially and which is no longer published because the number of readers was too low. This review only published very specific articles on symbolism but not on Guénon in general and therefore cannot be used for an article on Guénon.

P. Geay is someone for whom I have sympathy, but he is a fanatic reader of Guénon who wrote explicitly that one must believe Guénon word for word: some have rejected his review as inadmissible for wikipedia (see the talk page).

Although I am an admirer of Guénon, I do not want to write an article about him on wikipedia from the point of view of a thurifer. Could you remind him of the wikipedia rules and ask him to stop blocking my changes? His arguments: I don't like what you write, readers must make up their minds by reading Guénon themselves. In addition, he does not provide any secondary source, he wishes to refer to an author who is not admissible according to wikipedia criteria.

I ask you to bring him to his senses so as not to fall into an editing war knowing that he has no solution to solve the problem of the article according to the rules of wikipedia.

Thanks a lot,

best wishes, Fabien Gatti (talk) 12:33, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

answered at article talk —valereee (talk) 19:09, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Valereee, I wanted to bring this to your attention here. I had posted a comment to IHateAccounts regarding civility and a comment they made to me that I think was questionable [[1]]. In reply they blanked the comment from their talk page (allowed) but included the edit comment, " Springee (talk) remove what appears to be fairly obvious trolling, " [[2]]. Since creating an account (and even prior as an IP editor) the tone of IHA has been needlessly hostile. Would you mind reminding the editor that WP:CIVIL is not optional? Thank you. Springee (talk) 18:51, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

BTW, looking at some of their recent edit history, this [[3]] removal of Canhelp's comment (twice) as "not forum" is problematic. I don't know enough about the topic to claim Canhelp's comments contained useful information but they were at minimum discussing a content issue with the article. Blanking them (twice)[[4]] as NOTFORUM is unacceptable. Springee (talk) 19:02, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

(ec)Springee, I saw the original ping and took a look. As you pointed out, the original comment didn't actually cross the line. It's not particularly helpful to building collaborative relationships, but many editors would consider it simply a snappy remark. FWIW, your 'it costs nothing so why economize?' could be seen as falling into the same category. :) The trolling comment is more problematic, although I tend to try to give editors some leeway on their reactions to warnings on their user talk. I'm also not sure my getting involved would be productive, as IHA has seen me before as someone who is treating them unfairly over civility/personal attacks, so I'll ping GorillaWarfare, who has a much better relationship with IHA and may have some insight. Sorry, GW. :) —valereee (talk) 19:07, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

If someone wants to remove a comment from their own talk page, that's their prerogative. I agree that dismissing it as "trolling" is not particularly helpful, but Valereee has some good points. Regarding the NOTFORUM stuff, I do think they may be taking the guideline a bit far, but I also understand why they are taking a broad view -- there has been an enormous amount of disruption on that page and related election-adjacent articles. GorillaWarfare (talk) 19:12, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Valereee, I saw you restored the talk page comments. Thank you. I think these also should be restored for similar reasons [[5]] and here [[6]]. Springee (talk) 20:32, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Restored one as it had discussion, second only had a pointer to where discussion was happening. —valereee (talk) 20:53, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

[7] this was definitely trolling, and I want Springee to come nowhere near my talk page any more. IHateAccounts (talk) 16:14, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

No, that was not trolling. You have had an active account for less than a month yet you clearly know your way around Wikipedia including talk pages, the various nuances of policy, guidelines etc. Additionally you knew how to setup and archive your personal talk page. These are the sort of things I've seen from experienced editors after a period of time. Most new editors don't know these things. This suggests you have been editing Wikipedia for a while. It is possible you were only editing as a IP for a long time but asking if you had a previous account is not trolling. I will note that you didn't answer the question. Had I accused you of being a sock editor, that would have been trolling but I didn't do that. Having a previous account in good standing, abandoning that account then coming back with a new account that wouldn't be a violation of any rule. I see your message that you don't want me to visit your talk page (also something an new user might not be aware of). From now on I will only post required notifications to your talk page. Springee (talk) 16:21, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Springee, in fact IHA has edited as an IP, apparently extensively; they were philosophically opposed to creating an account. There's nothing inherently suspicious about that. —valereee (talk) 16:33, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

"Additionally you knew how to setup and archive your personal talk page." Actually I didn't know and I screwed it up the first time after trying the process from the documentation page [8], but keep casting aspersions, Springee.

"I will note that you didn't answer the question." And I won't, because the question is an uncivil aspersion. This is precisely why I don't want you anywhere near my talk page after you've tried to troll me twice. IHateAccounts (talk) 16:43, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

IHateAccounts, if you continue to accuse me (and others) of trolling I will take this to ANI. WP:CIVIL is policy. Springee (talk) 16:48, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

IHateAccounts, I've given you a lot of leeway. Please assume good faith and stop making accusations about other editors' motivations. You've asked Springee to stay off your talk; they've said they will. Leave it at that. —valereee (talk) 16:53, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Valereee With all due respect, I think you given this user a little too much leeway. From accusing me of "stonewalling and whitewashing" articles, [9], to baselessly suggesting that I'm in some sort of "clique" with other editors who “half the time they haven't read the policies...and half the time it looks like they never read the sources" [10], this user is creating a very hostile environment. And, I don't think I even have to mention how many times this user has accused others of "bullying" them, when no such bullying existed! Dr.Swag Lord, Ph.d (talk) 01:16, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Dear Valeree,

I was sorry to see an original page I uploaded, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahni_Ghorashi, so mangled by 3rd parties. Mahni just came the other evening and gave an amazing talk with Steve Blank and Laura Andreessen in Tech. I do also know he studied at Juilliard in NYC while in college! I don't know who's messing with his pages, and i'm sorry to see his page so destroyed, but I do understand we have to protect the integrity of Wikipedia. I was wondering if I could propose the following edits and deletions to clean things up a bit. Also, the event site had some nice citations to his background as well if helpful. If not, I understand!! Please let me know your thoughts , as I hate to see my original post destroyed by whomever is doing this. Thank you!!

Revision as of 02:47, 19 November 2020 Mahni Ghorashi Eiffeltower mahni.png Born July 12, 1983 (age 37) Knoxville, Tennessee, US Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology Yale University Occupation Entrepreneur, venture capitalist Parent(s) Ali Ghorashi, Tara Ghorashi Mahni Ghorashi (born July 12, 1983) is an American pianist, entrepreneur, investor and educator.[1][2][3]

Contents 1 Personal life 2 Career 3 Educator 4 Investor 5 Prizes 6 References 7 External links Personal life Mahni Ghorashi was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Iranian immigrants Ali Ghorashi and Tara Ghorashi.[4] He attended Farragut High School, received BS degrees from MIT in 2005,[5] attended the PhD program in English at Yale,[6]and received an MBA from Vanderbilt University.[3] Mahni is the brother of Kia Ghorashi, Managing Director of Makena Capital.[7]

Ghorashi began his life as pianist before turning to tech, starting piano lessons from a young age. He studied piano at the Juilliard School before pursuing a career in tech.cite: {{http://3686now.com/}}

Career Ghorashi moved to Silicon Valley in 2007, where he founded and helped launch a number of startups, including LiteScape, Bina[9] and Trapit.[10] In 2014, Ghorashi co-founded Clear Labs,[11] a private genomics testing company headquartered in San Carlos, California, United States. It conducts high-throughput DNA sequencing tests to determine if food samples contain the genetic materials of specific pathogens.[12] It can also verify a food's ingredients, its GMO status, or whether it has been contaminated by human or animal DNA.[13][14]

Clear Labs was founded by Ghorashi and Sasan Amini,[15] both of whom left their jobs at genomics companies to start Clear Labs.[16] They acquired $6.5 million in series A financing in 2015.[17] In 2017, the company closed a $16 million Series B funding round and followed by another $21 million round in October 2018.[18] The company raised a follow-on round of $18M in May 14, 2020 for a total of $63.5M.[19][20][21] The company was listed as one of Forbe's 25 most innovative Ag-tech startups.[22]

Educator Ghorashi has guest-lectured and taught entrepreneurship courses cite{{http://3686now.com/}}. He is also responsible for collaborating with 12 Entrepreneurship Centers throughout the state of Tennessee.[25]He has been a frequent speaker at festivals like TechCrunch Disrupt, AllThingsD, MITEmTech, WSJTech, FortuneGlobalForum, Forbes AgTech, SXSW, and WiredHealth events.[26]

Investor Through his work with the private industry and the state of Tennessee, Ghorashi has helped to raise tens of millions of dollars in Small Business Innovation Research government grants, as well as invested across the health care, software, medical device, information technology, biotechnology, hardware, health diagnostics, enterprise software, educational technology, cleantech, machine learning, energy and internet sectors.[27]

References

"Clear Labs Aims To Be Google Search For GMOs In Packaged Food". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
"Food analytics startup Clear Labs raises $13 million from Wing, GV, Tencent, more". VentureBeat. 2016-12-13. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
"Ilya Tokhner". Vanderbilt University. Owen Center for Entrepreneurship. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
"Educators". Retrieved 2020-10-30.
"Author: Mahni Ghorashi". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
"LaunchTN". ne-np.facebook.com (in Nepali). Retrieved 2020-11-14.
"Why Makena". Makena Capital. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
"Page". new-york-concert-in-review.com. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
"Roche acquires Bina Technologies and enters the genomics informatics market". sequencing.roche.com. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
"Trapit acquires Addvocate – 2014-12-09 – Crunchbase Acquisition Profile". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
"Clear Labs closes $21M funding round to advance food safety solutions". Food Dive. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
"Evolving pathogen testing methods offer better, faster alternatives". www.foodengineeringmag.com. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
Leopold, Todd. "10% of vegetarian hot dogs contain meat, says analysis". CNN. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
Bromwich, Jonah Engel (2015-11-05). "No, Hot Dogs Do Not Contain Human Meat (Published 2015)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
"Clear Labs Aims To Be Google Search For GMOs In Packaged Food". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
Grant, Rebecca (2015-10-23). "The Company That Wants to Test Your Hot Dog's DNA". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
"Clear Labs Aims To Be Google Search For GMOs In Packaged Food". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
Cathy Siegner. "Clear Labs closes $21M funding round to advance food safety solutions". Food Dive. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
"Clear Labs - company profile". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
"Clear Labs Overview". PitchBook Data. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
"Clear Labs raises $18 million to expand its automated next-generation sequencing platform for COVID-19 diagnostics". Tech News | Startups News. 2020-05-14. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
Sorvino, Chloe. "The 25 Most Innovative Ag-Tech Startups". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
"Innovation and Entrepreneurship". MIT Sloan School of Management. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
"Stanford Entrepreneurship Program". Entrepreneurship at Stanford. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
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"Mahni Ghorashi – Crunchbase Person Profile". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2020-11-11.
"Mahni Ghorashi – Crunchbase Person Profile". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
Ghorashi, Mahni (2006). "Going Native: Savage Actors and the Play of Textuality in Melville's Benito Cereno". Literature Compass. 3 (4): 636–647. doi:10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00335.x. ISSN 1741-4113.
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"Kelly-Douglas Fund". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-11-14.

External links Mahni Ghorashi, Crunchbase LaunchTN, Crunchbase Categories: Living people21st-century American businesspeopleActivists from CaliforniaAmerican technology company foundersAmerican technology executivesMassachusetts Institute of Technology alumniYale University alumniBusinesspeople from San FranciscoBusinesspeople from TennesseeAmerican classical pianists

Matt123071, the best thing to do is go to that article's talk at Talk:Mahni Ghorashiand discuss there. —valereee (talk) 16:31, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks @Valeree just added. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matt123071 (talk • contribs) 16:37, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi. I was just changing the opening sentence to match that of Charles Graner's page, which states he was a "war criminal", who was convicted of the same crimes during the same scandal as Lynndie England. Besides the mismarking of the edit as minor, is there anything wrong with adding "war criminal" to the introduction paragraph of Lynndie England's page, considering what she was convicted of were war crimes. If not, does that mean the "war criminal" description should be removed from Charles Graner's page as well? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CalicoMo (talk • contribs)

CalicoMo, you can raise the question at the article talk page at Talk:Lynndie England, and you may very well gain consensus, but in no universe is calling someone a "war criminal" a minor edit. If you have 'minor edit' set as a default in your preferences, I'd recommend changing it. A minor edit is a typo fix. —valereee (talk) 19:26, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

I saw your notice. You requested I ping you. Bathis (talk) 20:00, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Bathis, thanks, answered at your talk —valereee (talk) 21:01, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

 

On 24 November 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Women's Barracks, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Women's Barracks (cover pictured), regarded as a classic of lesbian pulp fiction, was banned in Canada and became the first paperback-original bestseller in the United States? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Women's Barracks. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Women's Barracks), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi Valereee, I'm just letting recent contributors to Emily W. Murphy know that I've dropped the protection level to extended confirmed and added a consensus required restriction. Please see my explanation on the talk page for more information. Thanks, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:52, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi Valereee, thanks for the Bathis block. Just a note, when linking to AN discussions in block logs, it's helpful to use permalinks since the discussion may be hard to find after being archived. You can use Special:Permalink for this, and it works exactly like a normal wikilink. To link to a specific section of a specific revision, add a slash followed by the oldid, then a hash and the section name. I put an example on User talk:Bathis. — Wug·a·po·des​ 22:55, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Wugapodes, thanks! I've been thinking I should figure out how to correctly use section permalinks for a while now. :) —valereee (talk) 14:14, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

A cookie of gratitude for your efforts, including your patience and taking those right moments to breathe, regarding Emily W. Murphy. Thank you for your ongoing, valuable contributions to Wikipedia, even if it can be challenging sometimes! Missvain (talk) 17:31, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the cookie, Missvain, and also for your help at that article! —valereee (talk) 17:50, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice and help. Will be willing.Mr Hall of England (talk) 21:39, 18 November 2020 (UTC) I have done all the advice you have doneMr Hall of England (talk) 22:35, 19 November 2020 (UTC) Done that Mr Hall of England (talk) 18:28, 20 November 2020 (UTC) I have done that now, I agree I don't like reading long things. Mr Hall of England (talk) 15:13, 21 November 2020 (UTC) I can commit to that. Mr Hall of England (talk) 15:37, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi I haven't heard about my blocking lifted. Hope you are well, stay safe. Mr Hall of England (talk) 19:49, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

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Wine doesn't count in 2020, right? I'll have another bucketful, thanks. —valereee (talk) 21:06, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

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Hello, regarding: The WSJ/National Review should be the gold standard for editors on the right. WP:RSP: - (1) Most editors consider The Wall Street Journal generally reliable for news. (2) There is no consensus on the reliability of National Review. starship.paint (talk) 02:48, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Starship.paint, yes, but if the NR isn't even covering it, it's not a thing. :D —valereee (talk) 03:06, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

That's right! starship.paint (talk) 03:07, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

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I understand the deletion for the first 2 deletions months ago, but calling a new article with national news attention to be “bullshit” and calling me “disruptive editing” is a problem. Might want to re-evaluate your place in the article like I did. (There was a reason I created the article. It was in draft space until it had 10 sources for the article. After that, I moved it too main space. IMO, the way you talked on the talk page, you would have nominated a the draft for deletion....which means you would have been too attached.). Thank you for reading. Elijahandskip (talk) 16:14, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Elijahandskip, sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by IMO, the way you talked on the talk page, you would have nominated a the draft for deletion....which means you would have been too attached. —valereee (talk) 16:32, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Valereee, I made that IMO statement because of you calling the new article (Which so far has passed the original Afd reasons) to be "disruptive editing". I have in no way done any disruptive editing with this new article and I took high offense to the remark. Elijahandskip (talk) 16:36, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Elijahandskip, you've created this article three times in like three months, and under different names so it's hard for people to even connect them. I'm sorry you're highly offended, but honestly it's a bit much. If you'd even waited a few weeks to see if this current iteration had legs, I wouldn't be so exasperated. But no. The minute there was a filing, off you galloped as if we were on deadline here. —valereee (talk) 17:20, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Val - I just reverted a bit of vandalism and looked at the edit history for this IP, and there's nothing productive at all in that history, just constant vandalism over years. Why not just block it and be done with it? Atsme 💬 📧 15:34, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Atsme, hm. They seem to have moved along, and they edit so infrequently that I'm not sure how much even a monthlong block would help. I'll put them on my watchlist, though they also seem to edit in such short bursts that I'm not sure how helpful that would be either. What a useless idiot, eh? —valereee (talk) 16:17, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Yep, that's what they do. It's annoying but not enough to fret over. Thanks for looking at it, though. Atsme 💬 📧 16:24, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Atsme, the fact it's been going on so long is where I was waffling. An indef is the only thing that's really going to help, unfortunately. —valereee (talk) 16:54, 2 December 2020 (UTC)