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Your draft article, Draft:Hermaphrodites with Attitude


Hello, Alison. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Hermaphrodites with Attitude".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the  or  code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. 1989 (talk) 01:24, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

Comment: Transgender and intersex task forces
Hi. has proposed creating a transgender/nonbinary task force, and I thought it might be an opportunity to create a small intersex task force as well. Would you be interested in commenting? Thanks! Trankuility (talk) 03:45, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I think that's a super idea. Sign me up! :) Mind you, I'm largely retired these days - Alis o n  ❤ 07:04, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks! There's a discussion at WikiProject LGBT studies#Transgender and intersex task forces about how to tackle the issues. The project is currently not at all inclusive. There has always been an open question about if it should be. Comments there would be very helpful, if you have time. Trankuility (talk)

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Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
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Technical news
 * When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
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 * The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries
 * JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Abortion in Ireland
Hi! I've started a WikiProject Abortion in Ireland

Sock remains unblocked
Just mentioning that confirmed sock User:Ali Yazdi from Iran (Sockpuppet investigations/Mangoeater1000) remains unblocked. Cheers. 185.17.159.200 (talk) 08:17, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

March 2017
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Meow Wars, from its old location at User:Alison/mw. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. North America1000 13:14, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

10 years of adminship, today.
Wishing Alison a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman ( talk ) 16:49, 21 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks! - Alis o n  ❤ 01:12, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary

 * Thank you! :) Can't believe it's been that long! - Alis o n  ❤ 01:11, 22 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Pokes head in, you are aging backwards. =) Congrats Alison! - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 01:30, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

ED
Upon doing some digging, I see that an exception was made in the past to wrap Encyclopedia Dramatica's url in nowiki tags for the purpose of its article. Fair enough. However, do we have any reliable sources about the authority of the url we're pointing people to? It would not be the first time some random person hosted a mirror of this sort of content just to exploit the incoming traffic. This comes up all the time with Tor .onion links, which have no central registration authority and so very frequently subject to a copy of a site going up at a different address, with different intentions... Seems to me reliable sources are in order to provide any "unofficial" url, no? &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 12:30, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi there. Given that it's Encyclopedia Dramatica we're talking about, you're not going to find much in terms of a WP:RS which will authenticate the .rs TLD switch. I happen to know that it's the same crew that ran the .se site, but that's obviously a primary source. My recommend would be to leave it as-is for now - Alis o n  ❤ 18:25, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * We had the Daily Dot for the previous one, I believe, but I don't think "there are no reliable sources for it because of the nature of the subject" is a good reason to include something without reliable sources. The opposite, really (regardless of its content). Linking to unsourced unofficial domains hosting mirrors of a site run, presumably, by just some user/fan of the site, especially when that site is associated with trolling, harassment, doxing, etc.... seems seriously problematic for WP:EL. &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 23:59, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi there. I didn't actually say that there are no reliable sources. What I did say was that "you're not going to find much" in terms of a WP:RS. And we've been over this ground again and again over the past 5 or 6 years, starting in 2010 when the .com domain was taken down by Girlvinyl, and subsequently popped up again at .ru and .es, finally settling down for the longest time at .se. Each time, it's basically the same crew running the show. In fact, I know a number of them, given that I'm an ex-sysop there. Not that that helps, as it's a primary source. My point here is that yes, it's the same site, as time will prove out. But in the meantime, there will be the same back-and-forth over the links. Because - let's be honest - many folks would rather there was no link at all there due to ED being taboo on Wikipedia. WP:*IS*CENSORED, if you like. There was an entire failed policy proposal around exactly that, in fact, about a decade ago - Al<font color= "#FFB550">is o n  ❤ 01:30, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Request for protection reduction
Hi there,

Can you un-protect my User page, as I am no longer retired?

Many thanks

Th e Halo Θ 13:39, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Ok - ✅, and welcome back :) - A<font color= "#FF7C0A">l<font color= "#FFB550">is o n  ❤ 15:40, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago
... and the first! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:02, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Wow - has it really been that long? :O Seems like only yesterday!! Thanks for the reminder! - A<font color= "#FF7C0A">l<font color= "#FFB550">is o n  ❤ 02:47, 1 May 2017 (UTC)


 * ... and again true on this Valentine's Day: Ten years! - Have a happy day! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:21, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thank you for the prompt response to my problem. Much appreciated. <span style=" color:#0B0B3B; text-shadow: 3px 3px #C0C0C0;font-style: italic; font-family:'Britannic Bold';">Darwinian Ape talk 02:46, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
Here's another ;) - May May music on texts by Irish women make you smile ;) (on the Main page today) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:59, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Four years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:39, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

... and five --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:27, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you!! I should be here more often :) - A l is o n  ❤ 06:32, 13 May 2019 (UTC)


 * You made me smile again ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:33, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ... six years now --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:20, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Bad incounter with user
A user "Quis separabit?" accused me of making harmful edits and vandelism and when I asked on their page about it, they just wiped their talk page. I tried to repost and was met with a agressive and uncalled for retort in the edit history page. I reach out to you randomly since you have posted before on his page. Is this acceptable on Wiki? Will I actually get banned? Thanks. 108.54.93.183 (talk) 00:22, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Dead?
I think User:Mr Accountable may be dead. No edits since 2011. Talk page full of automated entries, no replies at all. --Manorainjan (talk) 16:05, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
 * You're describing around 95% of Wikipedia's user talk pages (at the time of writing we have 31,327,765 registered accounts, only 31848 of which are active in even the broadest sense). Unless you have any actual evidence that a user is deceased, this kind of comment is grossly inappropriate. &#8209; Iridescent 20:17, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
 * You're describing around 95% of Wikipedia's user talk pages (at the time of writing we have 31,327,765 registered accounts, only 31848 of which are active in even the broadest sense). Unless you have any actual evidence that a user is deceased, this kind of comment is grossly inappropriate. &#8209; Iridescent 20:17, 10 July 2017 (UTC)


 * This answer is in no way relevant for me. --Manorainjan (talk) 21:42, 10 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Whether you think it's relevant or not is—er—irrelevant; if I ever see you make a grossly inappropriate comment like this again without evidence, you're blocked. The BLP policy applies to Wikipedia's editors just as much as it does to its article subjects, and you can't get much more of a BLP violation than claiming someone is dead without evidence. &#8209; Iridescent 21:54, 10 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Where is the bus? --Manorainjan (talk) 22:18, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

request for IP block exemption permission
Hi, I would like to request for IP block exemption. Because my network does not allow direct access to most web site at specific hours of each day. At those hours, Tor is the only way for me to access and edit wikipedia.

Thanks, --Ans (talk) 05:36, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Requesting a copy of Linuxbeak s "admin stuff" page about JarlaxleArtemis
Greetings, Alison. Sorry to disturb you but I was checking the arbitration and LTA pages of JarlaxleArtemis and frankly, I was quite interested on how long his case is and that he had over 3 (!) arbitration cases. In one of them, it says case was closed due to a permanent ban by reasons detailed in Linuxbeak s admin stuff. But when I tried to view it to learn more, it was for some reason blanked as an "Courtesy" and all previous revisions were revdeleted. Since I have a knack for history and that I would like to learn the full picture, I request a copy of said article before it was revdeleted and courtesy blanked. As I don't like censorship and absence of information. Along with screenshots of his most serious violations. For example, that attack on his teacher. Feel free to blur out personal details if you like I just want more info. Eric8123 (talk) 07:01, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

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Drafts for Move (company) and Realtor.com articles
Hi, Alison. I noticed you are a top contributor to the Zillow article, so I was wondering if you might be willing to review proposed drafts I've submitted for consideration on behalf of Move, since they are somewhat similar to the Zillow article. I have saved expanded and updated versions of the Move (company) and Realtor.com articles; you can view the Move draft here and the Realtor.com draft here. Both articles have edit requests on their respective talk pages.

During this project, Move has provided feedback to ensure accuracy. Given my conflict of interest, I will not edit either article directly and ask independent editors to review them for accuracy, neutrality, and verifiability. I noticed the Zillow article has been tagged for conflict of interest editing, but I'm working transparently and have added appropriate COI banners to both talk pages. Do you have any interest in reviewing either draft, or know someone who may be? I've posted some notes on WikiProject talk pages but so far no changes have been made to either article. Thanks for your consideration. Inkian Jason (talk) 18:02, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to discuss the soon to built, Interaction Timeline
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E-mail
R adi X ∞  00:42, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello, Alison. I've send you an email. Please have a look at it. R adi X  ∞  00:27, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  12:50, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I never got it, for some reason - A<font color= "#FF7C0A">l<font color= "#FFB550">is o n  ❤ 00:32, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I just sent you another email using the Special:EmailUser feature. R adi X  ∞  10:20, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Alison, I sent one several days ago. If you didn't get it, please email me.

Your signature
Please be aware that your signature uses deprecated  tags, which are causing Obsolete HTML tags lint errors.

You are encouraged to change
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—Anomalocaris (talk) 08:20, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

• Ok - fixed, thanks! - A l is o n  ❤ 02:17, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks! —Anomalocaris (talk) 09:04, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

With ivy, shamrock and bright holly berry, be Christmas to you both blessed and merry! (I didn't make that up, in the interests of transparency)

 * Alison, for shame -- "deprecated  tags, which are causing Obsolete HTML tags lint errors" !!  I am shocked. Shocked. (LOL).  Anyway, just came to say, "Nollaig Shona agus Athbhliain faoi Mhaise  Duit".  Quis separabit?  15:24, 24 December 2017 (UTC) ❤


 * Hi Robert!! Belated Merry Christmas to you, too, and best wishes for the New Year. Good to see you around here still :) - A l is o n  ❤ 02:18, 2 January 2018 (UTC)