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Research tag
Can you tell me about the Wikipedia for Research tags being added to upcoming TFAs?--Wehwalt (talk) 00:48, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I went into bold mode after a discussion at WT:MILHIST. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 03:53, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Today's featured article/December 14, 2015
Ed, I think you wrote a summary for this one back in March. I've tweaked it a bit; what do you think? It needs trimming, but I might ask to go over 1200 characters with this, I haven't decided. - Dank (push to talk) 03:35, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Are you sure you don't want to hold that for April Fool's Day? :-) I'll see what I can do to shorten it. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 03:52, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Imzadi asked Chris about that, he said no. I've already trimmed it a bit. - Dank (push to talk) 04:00, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah, gotcha. Let me know what you think about "worthless" in there—the word sounds like POV but is used in the article. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 04:08, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm going to revert some of that, I shouldn't tackle it now because I'm sleepy and not in the best mood. - Dank (push to talk) 04:16, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * No worries! Sleep well. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:54, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 1140 characters now! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:03, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay, you definitely made it better, although it needed some copyediting, at least according to the way I usually do things at TFA. I tried to explain, see what you think. (Sigh ... not even finished with the current batch of 4 TFAs, and I see I have 5 more now.) - Dank (push to talk) 14:46, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me. Don't overburden yourself, friend. :-/ Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:52, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I think it would be helpful if I could care a little less. I'm trying to clear out some time to write up my notes of the last 6 years ... unsuccessfully, so far. - Dank (push to talk) 16:05, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

ru:HMS Dreadnought (1906) (Russian)
Hi, Ed! Look at the Russian article. There are some useful vector images depicting the Father of all dreadnoughts. --Maxrossomachin (talk) 20:17, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Those are seriously awesome! There's a lot of detail in them. Is there any chance they could translate some or all the images into English? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:51, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
 * It's a plain vector so anyone can translate them via text editor. I will translate some of them. --Maxrossomachin (talk) 08:09, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi! Please check the images recently uploaded to the English article. --Maxrossomachin (talk) 10:26, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Those are great! I'll work on the formatting soon—I think gallery or a similar template will look better. I'll figure something out. Thank you! :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 23:59, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Nice! --Maxrossomachin (talk) 10:45, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

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It's that season again...

 * Same to you. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 23:57, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

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 * thanks! All the best to you and your family as well. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 07:28, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and happy new year


Merry Christmas and happy new year. (: --Pine✉
 * Right back at you, ! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 07:28, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

78.26's RFA Appreciation award

 * no problem. Wield the tools carefully but confidently—you're going to do great. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 07:28, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #6—2015
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Sockpuppet investigations/2.219.248.118/Archive
Hi Ed, there's nothing wrong with commenting after closure, but you commented after archival. That's not something you should do. It would have been better to contact either the clerk or me with your concerns rather than edit the archive itself. That said, I'm not sure what you want done. How do you suggest we go about finding out if there are more IPs out there that are connected? The filer generally has to present evidence of socks, whether they are named accounts or IPs, and the filer identified only three in the case. The filer did not request a CU, which, arguably, might be able to do more than a clerk in a case like this, but a CU is only justified if there's sufficient evidence to trigger it. Anyway, I'm willing to do something further, including unarchiving the case, but only if I understand what that is and I think it's reasonable. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:06, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that. There's a lengthy history of different IPs editing John Calvin; see and  above. I really do think a CU is justified, but that's an unqualified opinion, as I know very little about the intricacies of CU policy. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:51, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
 * As I understand it from others' comments above (I'm not familiar with the case), there is a swath of related (?) articles that IPs have been attacking in similar ways, leading you and other editors to believe they all belong to the same person (whoever that is). According to another CheckUser, range blocks aren't feasible, which usually means there are too many ranges. You want a check run to see if other IPs can be found and preemptively blocked. Is that about right?--Bbb23 (talk) 14:02, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Well. When you put it that way, maybe not. I guess blocks are pretty useless if they're range-hopping so much that a rangeblock isn't feasible. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 21:16, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

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