User talk:BorgQueen

DYK for Monument to the Martyrs of the 1830 Revolution
-- RoySmith (talk) 12:02, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Sluishuis
Aoidh (talk) 00:02, 11 May 2023 (UTC) GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:27, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Vanadium
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

Seeking Resolution For Disruptive User
I'm not sure how this works precisely, but I am seeking to report a user under the name MrOllie who is obstructing my edits. On the Buck Breaker article, he continues to insist that the citations provided to an excerpt are supported, though after having checked the citations, they provide zero relevance to what is written on the wikipedia page. The wikipedia page excerpt in question is referring to a conspiracy about attempts to instill homosexuality within the black community and to feminize black men. The citation in question (Afrocentric Worldview, Hetero-Normative Ethos and Black LGBTQ Intellectuals Matriculating through Afrocentric Psychology Programs at Historically Black Colleges/Universities (HBCUs)), specifically discusses the LGTQ community in regards to the black community and within afrocentric studies and does not mention A) An attempt to instill homosexuality within the black community or B) An attempt to feminize black men. I hope you can warn him or settle the matter, as the wikipedia page itself is significantly lacking in reliable attribution and requires editing in order to reflect its lack-thereof.VirtualRebound22 (talk) 02:10, 26 May 2023 (UTC)


 * VirtualRebound22 has been repeatedly deleting content with obviously false edit summaries - first claiming that there are no citations, and then instead claiming they don't support the content when pressed. Both claims are obviously false - the citation obviously supports the claim if you check it. MrOllie (talk) 02:14, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry guys. Please contact another admin. BorgQueen (talk) 02:26, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

DYK for February Azure
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DYK for Visa policy of Azerbaijan
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023
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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:32, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

DYK help
Hey BorgQueen, hope everything is going well. I now have four DYK noms piled up (some of them months old, and two recent ones). I wanted some help understanding what more is required on my part for them to be promoted. Really appreciate your help with this. I have some more ideas that I want to submit but I would like to make sure my nominations aren't being boycotted first.--NØ 18:35, 5 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Just wait. Probably it just takes time. BorgQueen (talk) 18:50, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Alright, thanks.--NØ 12:58, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Sarita Colonia Nomination
I saw that you moved a promoted Nomination to an image slot. My first concern is that the image was not put forward as part of the nomination; and my second concern is that it may not be qualified as a free image. It is licensed Bruxton (talk) 13:08, 11 June 2023 (UTC)


 * @Bruxton moved to Prep 7 sans image. As for your first point, I was fairly certain the nominator, @Thebiguglyalien, wouldn't mind. But yes, we don't really know if the image is PD worldwide. Too bad! It would have gotten a lot of attention with that ghostly, eerie image. BorgQueen (talk) 13:24, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
 * It was ghostly and spooky! If we can investigate the PD we may be able to use it. Bruxton (talk) 13:39, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
 * @Bruxton the problem is that I couldn't figure out when it was first published. 1926 is old enough but it could have been first published much later, I suppose. BorgQueen (talk) 13:42, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Kinjirō Ashiwara
-- RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 12 June 2023 (UTC) GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:27, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Religion
I was not sure the Pope Sisinnius hook should be in the quirky slot. It involves religion and it is rather tragic. On the face of it it looks quirky but I hesitated because there are 1.3 billion Catholics in the world. I am not sure I am right so I just came here to explain why I did not place it in the quirky slot. Hope all is well! Bruxton (talk) 13:51, 16 June 2023 (UTC)


 * @Bruxton please feel free to replace it! BorgQueen (talk) 13:55, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
 * There is always a chance I am being too sensitive about it. I will ruminate on it. Bruxton (talk) 13:59, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Order of Excellence for Women
It looks like Template:Did you know nominations/Order of Excellence for Women was a slog just to get to this point, but I was reviewing it and while Order of the Righteous Son of Sudan is good at 1843 characters of prose, Order of Excellence for Women only has 993 characters of prose. It looks like the initial comment by User:Muboshgu noted this and suggested that it needed to be expanded, but it looks like that detail got lost in the shuffle of ribbon color and verifiability concerns. I'll ping User:FuzzyMagma here but I didn't want to bring it to WT:DYK because I feel like I should ping everyone and that's too many people to ping without a suggested course of action, so I wanted to check with you before bringing it there and pinging 9(+) people. How should this be addressed, or User:FuzzyMagma do you think you can expand it out with at least 407 more characters of prose appropriately so that it's not an issue? - Aoidh (talk) 03:17, 21 June 2023 (UTC)


 * The DYK code ignores text inside the box. Take that into consideration and it passes FuzzyMagma (talk) 05:40, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
 * It ignores it because that's not prose, so it's not taken into consideration. Text in tables like that are very specifically excluded from being counted as prose length in WP:DYKCRIT. The article as written is not long enough to meet DYK's requirements. - Aoidh (talk) 05:45, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
 * @FuzzyMagma @Aoidh is correct I'm afraid. BorgQueen (talk) 06:22, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
 * @Aoidh How it is not prose? how did you define prose? when did text inside a table did not become prose?
 * Anyway, let me take it from the table so the code can read it as prose.
 * Here, fixed the prose problem. Please confirm when you have time FuzzyMagma (talk) 11:32, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Text within tables are not considered prose for the purposes of DYK, as explained at WP:DYKCRIT (Articles must have a minimum of 1,500 characters of prose (ignoring infoboxes, categories, references, lists, and tables etc.) (emphasis added) which has been the standard for over a decade. That said, moving the description into non-tabled prose satisfies WP:DYKCRIT, so there's no further issue from me. - Aoidh (talk) 17:43, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I will put this forward for discussion. Do you know what will be the best avenue for that? FuzzyMagma (talk) 06:30, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
 * WT:DYK is thataway, but I would recommend against picking a losing battle. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 09:52, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
 * @Theleekycauldron if it was dicussed before then can you please share that. Maybe there were valid point that were made, or you can tell me your opinion too or why you think it is a lost cause FuzzyMagma (talk) 11:35, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I went back and found when it was added to that particular page, which was December 29, 2007. However, it apparently existed elsewhere before that; this discussion predates that addition yet references that wording and this comment suggests that it was added to some other DYK rules page in April 2007, just over sixteen years ago. I went through each archive one at a time and looked for opposition to that addition and could not find any from its initial comment in Archive 19 all the way to Archive 36, when this discussion proposed some IAR "wriggle room" with the tables and other exclusions and did not gain traction, but even that did not suggest that content in tables should count outright. From there, there have been brief discussions where editors who included a table in an article would push back on the idea of their own tables not counting and it would be explained why that rule was there, but on the whole I haven't seen comments by other editors supporting content within tables counting for prose purposes at DYK. - Aoidh (talk) 03:48, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2023
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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:57, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Pachysentis
RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

A completely random question
You have made 9,260 edits to Template:Did you know/Preparation area 1; how did that happen? I'm assuming it was in the early days of the project when DYK was substantially different in ways I don't know, but if it wasn't ... AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 21:31, 30 July 2023 (UTC)


 * I recall that there was only Prep 1 back then. BorgQueen (talk) 21:37, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
 * @AirshipJungleman29 BTW I'm talking about 2007-2010. Time flies! BorgQueen (talk) 21:47, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Yeah that would explain it! AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 21:49, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
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Omid tahvili
are you drunk???his name has also a Kurdish form in the webpage سورنا۸۱۱۸ (talk) 17:48, 9 August 2023 (UTC)


 * @سورنا۸۱۱۸ I'm not. The sentence still requires a citation as per WP:BLP. BorgQueen (talk) 23:16, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
 * @سورنا۸۱۱۸ I've changed his birthplace to Tehran, which is what the FBI source says. Hope this resolves the misunderstanding. BorgQueen (talk) 00:53, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
 * in Persian biographies,all sources say kermanshah,you changed it to Tehran!!!! it's funny how you insist on a wrong claim سورنا۸۱۱۸ (talk) 06:49, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
 * @سورنا۸۱۱۸ Do you have a reliable source for that? BorgQueen (talk) 06:53, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

DYK Recent additions
Hi, The table at the top of Recent additions appears to be broken. I don't know enough about how it works to try to fix it. Cavrdg (talk) 07:25, 10 August 2023 (UTC)


 * @Theleekycauldron I've noticed it too. Any ideas? BorgQueen (talk) 07:41, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Other than a bit of an awkward placement on the page because of the DYKbox, I'm not seeing much broken about it – what do you see? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 15:50, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
 * @Theleekycauldron seems to have been fixed already lol. BorgQueen (talk) 15:53, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
 * aha, looks like some vandalism got reverted. glad it's all worked out! :) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 16:00, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Aenetus of Amyclae
Hello,

Wikipedia notified me today that you reviewed my translation of the page about Aenetus of Amyclae. As I am new in creating/ translating articles and I have never had an article of mine been reviewed, could you explain to me briefly what that means. I did not spot a difference in the article ( though I might have just not noticed). Νικόλαος Δημήτριος Πούλος (talk) 10:31, 18 August 2023 (UTC)


 * @Νικόλαος Δημήτριος Πούλος Must be an error. Nevermind. BorgQueen (talk) 10:52, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
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Conversion to Christianity
Because you used a bot, the blankety-blank wouldn't let me thank you, so I came here personally to be sure you know I am totally overwhelmingly grateful for your help specifically - and truly - for any help I get with the details of referencing. I mostly suck at keeping all the tiny little details WP requires straight, and am admiring of those who manage it. So thank you. Show up on everything I do! Your contributions on conversion were many and valuable. Jenhawk777 (talk) 19:46, 2 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Oh no problem. I didn't even know the bot edited that article btw. BorgQueen (talk) 19:49, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Ha ha!! It said it was suggested by you, so how does that work anyway? Does it go around randomly? Jenhawk777 (talk) 15:07, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I usually assign them categories to work on. In your article's case it was Category:Use dmy dates from September 2023. BorgQueen (talk) 15:39, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

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Did you know nominations/Parque Central Complex fire
Kind regards. I have removed the copyvio at the DYK nomination of the Parque Central Complex fire article as a last resort to solve the copyvio issue. Do you consider that the nomination could be reopened in light of this? Pinging too, the last reviewer. Many thanks in advance. NoonIcarus (talk) 15:04, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
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Your GA nomination of Luttra Woman
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FA review for EBSD
Hi, I wonder if you can take time and participate in reviewing the Electron backscatter diffraction article and support or oppose my feature article nomination at Featured article candidates/Electron backscatter diffraction/archive1. Thanks FuzzyMagma (talk) 22:29, 10 October 2023 (UTC)


 * @FuzzyMagma I can't, I'm afraid. I know nothing about the subject. BorgQueen (talk) 22:34, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Others
I'm not sure "others" is needed here. If they are dead, are they not by definition separate from injured? Thoughts? Ed [talk] [OMT] 14:21, 26 October 2023 (UTC)


 * @The ed17 you're welcome to revert if you think it's unnecessary. BorgQueen (talk) 15:28, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2023
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 * Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
 * Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
 * Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
 * Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
 * An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2023
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 * Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024
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 * Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
 * The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2024
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 * Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
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 * Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
 * Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
 * The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with Unreferenced. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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대사관 관련
저는 한국어를 사용하는 한국인인데 영어를 몰라서 그동안 번역기에만 의존하며 영어 위키백과에서 활동했었습니다. 그러나 대사관이라는 문서의 한국어 문단에 BorgQueen님의 이름이 있어서 찾아왔습니다. 한국어로 말씀드리면 되는건가요? (I am a Korean who speaks Korean, but I don't know English, so I have been working in the English Wikipedia, relying only on the translator. However I came here because there is BorgQueen's name in the Korean paragraph of the document, Embassy. Should I say it in Korean?)Mamiamauwy (talk) 09:24, 24 February 2024 (UTC)


 * @Mamiamauwy 넵. 어떤 도움이 필요하신가요... BorgQueen (talk) 11:27, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
 * 제가 원래는 영어 위키백과가 아니라 제 모국어인 한국어 위키백과에서만 활동했거든요. 근데 한국어 위키백과에서 3개월간 차단이 되서 차단 기간이 만료되기 전까지는 한국어 위키백과에서 활동을 하지 못하게되었습니다. 그래서 그동안은 영어 위키백과에서 활동하려고하는데요. 이곳에서는 무엇을 하는것이 좋을까요? Mamiamauwy (talk) 12:21, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Sdkb · The Night Watch
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg East718 · Isabelle Belato · Mzajac · Staecker · Stan Shebs · Sugarfish · Tamzin



Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg SilkTork

Guideline and policy news
 * Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
 * Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news
 * The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
 * Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).



Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Kbdank71 · Kosack · NrDg · TLSuda

Guideline and policy news Technical news Arbitration Miscellaneous
 * An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.
 * The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes.
 * An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
 * Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Nyttend
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg JohnOwens · Killiondude · MelanieN · Nihonjoe

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Nihonjoe



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Joe Roe

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news
 * Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news
 * Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration
 * The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous
 * This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
 * A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
 * Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Graham Beards
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Deskana · Mets501 · Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Deskana · Warofdreams



Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news
 * Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news
 * The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration
 * The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
 * The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous
 * WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace citation needed tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).



Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Elli · HouseBlaster · Pickersgill-Cunliffe
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Brianga · De728631 · Georgewilliamherbert · Hyacinth (deceased) · ProveIt · The Night Watch

Technical news
 * Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki.

Miscellaneous
 * The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:58, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

ITN archives
Hi. I hope you are doing well. I am glad to tell you that In the news/Posted/Archives are now fully available, with all the vandalism/disruptive edits removed. While creating the bot for the archival process, I went through a lot of the older posts, you are one of the editors whose name popped quite often in ITN in "back in the day", so I personally wanted to let you know about the archives its nice to see that you are still active! —usernamekiran (talk) 21:52, 18 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Good to know. BorgQueen (talk) 02:56, 19 July 2024 (UTC)