User talk:Carcharoth/Archive 52

TFAR notice
Please see Today%27s_featured_article/requests. I nominated to WP:TFAR an article you had successfully co-nominated at FAC, Albert Ball.

Thank you for your high-level quality improvement contributions to Wikipedia,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 20:51, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Interaction ban, ask first then wait principle
Dear Carcharoth, I agree with the ideas you present. It was/is not my intention to break any interaction bans. My primary concern is the continuation of slanderous accusations directed against me. These accusations date back to at least July 2013 (8 months!), and they have been going on non-stop. Arbitrators and administrators have issued various warnings, to several users, to put down the stick and move on with their editing. Nonetheless, these warnings have done nothing to stop these users from consistently insulting me and/or breaching the interaction bans. I have taken my situation to ArbComm and AN/I (which was suggested by arbitrators), but nothing has come out of it. Instead, what consistently happens is that these editors resort to WP:TLDR walls of text again arguing a case that has already been closed and archived. Regardless of whether their assessment is right or wrong, arbitrators and administrators have told these users to stop with the slander. I am tired of the insults and perplexed by the lack of concrete actions against the slander. Please help me.-- MarshalN20 T al k 00:16, 5 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Apologies for the late reply. I am about to go on a long wiki-break, so I won't be able to follow this up any further. I hope my colleagues will be able to deal with this both to your satisfaction and those of the others involved in this. Carcharoth (talk) 00:09, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

DNB antiquarians
I have just done a topical list, WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography/Antiquarians. Mixed bunch, but I found some missing FRSs there, among other things. Charles Matthews (talk) 17:54, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Charles. Mixed bunch, as you say. When I get back from my imminent wiki-break, I hope to have a closer look at some of those and other missing FRS people. Carcharoth (talk) 00:10, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Commonwealth War Graves Commission
After a long reprieve from the article, I got back into it last night. If you get a moment have a quick loom over. Pretty sure it's up to GA now. But a ce wouldn't hurt-Labattblueboy (talk) 15:47, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi Labattblueboy. The changes looked fine in the time I had to look (the additional pictures looked good, though I was a bit sad to see the Civilian Roll of Honour picture drop off). I've not had a chance to look in on the GA nomination, but best of luck with that. I'll try and look at the article again when I get back from my wiki-break. Well, that and trying to work out which of various memorial pictures from Commons might be useful on en-WP or not (if I can work out what the images were showing before the deletions) - nothing to do with the CWGC article, but just a general note to myself to remember to try and follow that up. Carcharoth (talk) 00:14, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I actually liked the idea of including an image of the roll. I was actually inclined to put it in a multi-image box with an image of a traditional memorial to contrast the different concepts. However, I was worried it would take too much space. Thoughts?--Labattblueboy (talk) 01:01, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
 * There are lots of images potentially available in a topic like this. Working out which ones to use where is not easy. Try things out and change them if they don't work. I won't be around to reply further right now, as I'm just about to put up wikibreak notices. Carcharoth (talk) 01:07, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue XCVII, April 2014
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Motto of the Day Help Request April 2014
Motto of the Day (WP:MOTD) is in a state of emergency and really needs your help! There are not enough editors who are reviewing or nominating mottos at Motto of the day/Nominations/In review, and this probably means that you will notice a red link or “This space for rent” as our mottos for the next weeks and months.

Please take a moment to review the nominations and nominate your own new mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review and Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/'Specials. Any help would be appreciated! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:13, 29 April 2014 (UTC)


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Was Voltaire wrong about William Penn's 1683 treaty with the Lenape Indians?
There is a discussion here about William Penn's 1683 treaty with the Lenape Indians, and specifically whether Voltaire's famous quote ("...a treaty never written, never broken") from his 1764 Dictionnaire philosophique was incorrect. Could you please take a look at it? Thanks! --Guy Macon (talk) 16:51, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 April newsletter
Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's was Round 2's highest scorer, with a large number of featured picture credits. In March/April, he restored star charts from Urania's Mirror, lithographs of various warships (such as SMS Gefion) and assorted other historical media. Second overall was Pool E's, whose featured list Silver certificate (United States) contains dozens of scans of banknotes recently promoted to featured picture status. Third was Pool G's who has produced a large number of good articles, many, including Falkner Island, on Connecticut-related topics. Other successful participants included, who saw three articles (including the top-importance Ian Smith) through featured article candidacies, and , who saw three lists (including the beautifully-illustrated list of plantations in West Virginia) through featured list candidacies. High-importance good articles promoted this round include narwhal from, tiger from and The Lion King from. We also saw our first featured topic points of the competition, awarded to and  for their work on the Sega Genesis topic. No points have been claimed so far for good topics or featured portals.

192 was our lowest qualifying score, again showing that this WikiCup is the most competitive ever. In previous years, 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) or 100 (2010) secured a place in Round 3. Pool H was the strongest performer, with all but one of its members advancing, while only the two highest scorers in Pools G and F advanced. At the end of June, 16 users will advance into the semi-finals. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 17:56, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Precious again
  thoughts

Thank you for giving your precious time to thoughts, and for sharing them, thoughts on a BLP, on paid editing, and "how letting personal animosity and dislikes get in the way of the bigger picture ... destroys trust"- repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (30 December 2008)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:49, 13 May 2012 (UTC) Two years ago, you were the 122nd recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:29, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

On the birthday of Richard Strauss, I added Ernst Roth to my user page ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:39, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reminder, Gerda. I've taken more photos since then (on a different camera!), but have still been very tardy in getting the last of the photos off the old one. I am only popping in now and again until I can get back to full activity. Will get various photos uploaded then. Carcharoth (talk) 20:21, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your prompt response, - I was prepared for weeks or months of silence. Proudly singing, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:37, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, the weeks of silence (hopefully not months) will return soon when things get busy again here, but it is nice to feel able in most cases to pick things up again from where they were left. Though not in all cases, sadly. Carcharoth (talk) 21:30, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
 * You will know what's more important ;) - I just remembered the witch pardoned 300 years later, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:02, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Just a quick note, Gerda, to say that I should have more time now to upload that photo. Will be aiming to do some of that this weekend, hopefully. Carcharoth (talk) 22:48, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know, take your time, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:30, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I thought of the Last Songs (pictured today on the German Wikipedia's Main page). - Roth is now in my OTD section. I am waiting in patience ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:57, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Picture now uploaded. I'll pop over to your talk page, Gerda, to give you the link to the image, as I'm going to be archiving the older parts of this talk page soon. Carcharoth (talk) 23:51, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue XCVIII, May 2014
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Request for comment
Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)