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Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
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Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
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The Signpost: 28 February 2019
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Proposed deletion of Central Highlands Water


The article Central Highlands Water has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing General notability guideline and the more detailed Notability (companies) requirement. If you disagree and deprod this, please explain how it meets them on the talk page here in the form of 'This article meets criteria A and B because...' and ping me back through WP:ECHO or by leaving a note at User talk:Piotrus. Thank you."

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 10:09, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Central Highlands Water for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Central Highlands Water is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Central Highlands Water until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 04:46, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

if
you havent seen the whole sad story - its there  it is like watching  a repetitive gif of a car accident - JarrahTree 10:38, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Sure I have seen it, just not my normal for first response. I'm just less likely to address it here as it is usually managed, and address it through SWMT and global sysop. — billinghurst  sDrewth  10:43, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
 * yup - I understand - trust the new year is treating you well - JarrahTree 10:46, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019
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Hi
You're the only one complaining here. I've seen plenty of pages here on Wikipedia.. like for example (See this) it is even worse than his edit — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.196.42.71 (talk) 12:19, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Where pages are even worse, please feel welcome to tidy them up. Please don't add your links to Wikipedia. — billinghurst  sDrewth  20:22, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 March 2019
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Academic website in blacklist
Hello, can you please advise on how to request removal of an item from MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist which was originally added after a dispute which involved me and two now-disgraced very active users?

Users on Talk:Zenodo pointed out that it's difficult to edit the article due to the blacklist. Whatever "emergency" there was back then has since expired: in particular, I'm currently barred from adding links to zenodo.org (and I'm sorry that other users are harmed, but I may be considered involved).

Is it appropriate for me to de-archive or reiterate the request for removal from blacklist which other users made? Nemo 09:26, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
 * It is more appropriate to direct them to where the discussion should take place, and explain the process. — billinghurst  sDrewth  20:30, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, but one of them had already asked on that talk page and was supported by more than one user. Could you advise what other information is needed other than that? It's hard to say more than it's an academic repository which hosts pretty much the highest level of reliable sources (academic papers in open access), and it's used for hundreds if not thousands of articles thanks to its vast userbase. Nemo 21:05, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I brought it out of the archives as it would appear to not have had a final determination after the emergency blacklist. — billinghurst  sDrewth  05:35, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Nemo 07:35, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Hm, one week passed and autoarchival is at 14 days. I don't know the customs of this talk page: is it fine to ping the ~30 recently active regulars of that talk page or what else to do? Nemo 06:34, 9 April 2019 (UTC) Nevermind, handled already. Nemo 06:34, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019
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ArbCom 2019 special circular
   

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:47, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019
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The Signpost: 31 May 2019
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spam
lol Praxidicae (talk) 12:10, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. m:Special:permalink/19314851 — billinghurst  sDrewth  12:12, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

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Removing list of resources from Asymmetric Numeral Systems article?
I am the author of ANS coding and have noticed that you have removed the list of resources ( https://encode.su/threads/2078-List-of-Asymmetric-Numeral-Systems-implementations ) I am maintaining from its Wikipedia article Asymmetric numeral systems.

It, among others, provides list of links (verifiable by archive.org) to confirm "used in data compression since 2014" statement with the only stated placement in time for ANS. This list is placed in the only open discussion forum gathering authors of data compressors currently in use.

Now this article is missing referral to placement in time and more complete list of resources - what alternative to link you have removed do you propose? --Jarek Duda (talk) 03:48, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the query. If we are trying to justify the use of a forum post as a reliable source, so there should be clarity that the writer is an authority, so maybe we utilise cite web and ensure the use of the author field and fields that support its use. What didn't help is that the sentence structure is pretty clunky so uncertain on what it is particularly citing. — billinghurst  sDrewth  03:26, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I am not native English speaker, nor experienced editor. I have a feeling that there is now scarcity of editors for technical topics, what enforces experts in a field to write articles about new important topics - which might require polishing by professional editors. --Jarek Duda (talk) 05:11, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

thank you for your kind input
... I have responded on my talk page. Killer Chihuahua 12:05, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 October 2019
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Message
Hi, Billinghurst! Why do you revert my edits with links referring to actual CEP data back to obsolete but "official" links to deleted pages. Do you think irrelevant and dead links (to 404) are better? BTW in your message https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bilhanuk you refer to dead link too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bilhanuk (talk • contribs) 10:15, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

>Please do not put your signature into a &lt;ref> tag, that is a ugly and problematic practice. — billinghurst  sDrewth  10:20, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't think that spam-like references are better than no references. Please see WP:Reliable sources. Please also see WP:Conflict of interest and WP:Paid editing whilst I have your attention.

Then, why do you keep other spam-like references? E.g. https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vila_Norma_(Mesquita) I mean DDD-codes site that is obviously not official but MFA site. Is it yours? That reference does not prove that 21 is correct DDD code for given location, but it's still in place. Also I must mention that you reverted not to "no references", that, I can agree, may be better than spam-like references, but you reverted to reference that 1) does not prove data, 2) leads to deleted page, so it undermines trust to wiki.Bilhanuk (talk) 10:48, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Feel free to remove other spam references that you see. It takes a concerted, community effort to keep the place free of conflict of interest. — billinghurst  sDrewth  01:52, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Blanking sandbox
Dude, why did you blank my sandbox? The whole purpose is to make edits into it, right? Slavicanimefan2005 (talk) 22:27, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Mate, if you want to make edits relating to the article, then no, we use the article or the talk page for suggestions. Sandboxes are not typically used for existing articles, and not copying and pasting whole articles. Too much rubbish already exists without having duplicate articles all around the place; similarly copy and pasting articles back into place when other edits may have occurred. Plus it is not as I deleted the thing, you still have access to the whole thing, and can pull back the page, play with it, manipulate it, do your tests, and when finished you can blank it again. Pretty easy. — billinghurst  sDrewth  03:00, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

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Annie Eliot Trumbull sources
Do you have access to the full text of any of these biographical sources: wikisource:Author talk:Annie Eliot Trumbull? (Also where did you get this printout? Very helpful for someone who is so invisible online) czar  20:52, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
 * The bibliography listing is from the source Biography and Genealogy Master Index, and often you can find those works mentioned at archive.org; sometimes I can find them around the web when looking hard. The passport records I have access to the images; the death record is just that registration entry. If there is something specific, then I can download and dropbox for you.  I do that for Charles Matthews. Just drop me an email address. I will usually use primary data for WS identification, and then populating WD, though less so here due to our restriction of publication of reliable sources, maybe a date of birth or death that is needed then I might sneak them in. Typically what I see in records is more genealogical and records based, and less biographical, though there are exceptions. — billinghurst  sDrewth  21:57, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

That was a 2015 search, I can see more records available Name: 	Annie Eliot Trumbull Gender: 	Female Death Age: 	92 Obituary Date: 	23 Dec 1949 Obituary Place: 	Miami, Florida, United States of America
 * The Miami News; Publication Date: 23/ Dec/ 1949; Publication Place: Miami, Florida, USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/302904403/?article=d61c6330-cb8d-4a3a-82f1-089107a729ba&focus=0.6039511,0.91541153,0.7214522,0.96472204&xid=2378
 * No access to the detail, though I can see that a number of newspapers seemed to have had obits.
 * The Philadelphia Inquirer; Publication Date: 24/ Dec/ 1949; Publication Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/173771539/?article=4d97ff03-85bd-498d-960b-2c716239c17d&focus=0.26797542,0.14352465,0.38529763,0.27729255&xid=2378
 * Tampa Bay Times; Publication Date: 24/ Dec/ 1949; Publication Place: St. Petersburg, Florida, USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/314857052/?article=fbdb2d9b-f4a2-4e4a-bb65-94b93959b7c4&focus=0.1531009,0.2649149,0.26966304,0.28014702&xid=2378
 * The Birmingham News; Publication Date: 23/ Dec/ 1949; Publication Place: Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/573968541/?article=254ecc8d-2f46-40a7-80dc-b07d84ec26df&focus=0.025834825,0.5288442,0.15454902,0.59340847&xid=2378
 * The Palm Beach Post; Publication Date: 24/ Dec/ 1949; Publication Place: West Palm Beach, Florida, United States of America; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/130134958/?article=318c25e3-b131-41ea-afb4-62135bb03d85&focus=0.25251776,0.39645544,0.37158936,0.47285748&xid=2378


 * find a grave
 * Plenty of published city directory data from 1890s to 1920s for Hartford

— billinghurst  sDrewth  21:57, 29 December 2019 (UTC) Excellent. Thank you! I had a feeling I had seen that format before—I have BGMI access through the NYPL so will start there. I've sent you an email so you have my address. I'm waiting for my TWL newspapers.com account to re-up so I can check out your links. In the meantime, feel free to send anything good my way or add it directly to the article, Annie Eliot Trumbull. Thanks again, czar  03:57, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * archive.org
 * https://archive.org/details/americanauthorsb00burk/page/750
 * https://archive.org/details/womanswhoswhoam00leongoog/page/n823